— Will he cry again? Kinzinger hauled in for whining about Trump 'showing momentum'

The campaign push for the former president was seen as “pretty daunting” for a sobbing congressman-turned-CNN bench-warmer in a Bible-quoting lament.

(Video: CNN)

With only 20 of the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination awarded so far, the corporate media have seemed all too willing to jump into the general election with all the legal trouble that entails for former President Donald Trump. Even acknowledging that the primary contest was far from over came with painful analysis from former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R).

Joining the eponymous host of “Anderson Cooper 360°,“The politician-turned-senior policy analyst spoke with the most recent Republican senator to endorse the GOP figure, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, despite originally being nominated for the post by fellow House hopeful White and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

“I never expected this from Tim. I know him … as a decent man, as someone who cares about character. But he chose to put himself and his political career above his character like so many others people,” Kinzinger said of Scott's endorsement more than two months after suspending his own campaign for the presidency.

“Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to the Senate. She made him a United States senator where he could then become a national figure and then launch his campaign for president that failed, and she could have waited until after New Hampshire,” the analyst continued. “But there's something going on in people's souls where it's like, like the Bible says, you know, what's it to gain the whole world but lose your soul?”

“There are people who just want to win the world right now and Donald Trump has done a masterful job of convincing people that they can't stand against him and they won't,” he argued, before suggesting he had left opportunities for demonize Trump go without addressing

Continuing her tirade against the former president, Kinzinger claimed: “Donald Trump is a masterful victimizer. In fact, he's one of the weakest men you'll ever meet. He's actually someone who's afraid of his own shadow and, frankly she's scared of everyone but she puts on a really good front that she's not and puts on what looks like a tough front and makes people like Tim Scott not even wait. Until after New Hampshire. Give Nikki a chance to take her to New Hampshire.

“I don't think it's going to affect him too much in New Hampshire,” he said of the potential impact the 26th U.S. Senate endorsement could have on Trump. “The only thing it does is it shows the momentum that Donald Trump has been doing, I'll say objectively, a good job of showing the momentum, and it's actually pretty disheartening.”

A top question among social media users after the interview was simply: “Is she going to cry again?”

Will he cry again?

— Davison Harley (@DavisonHarley1) January 20, 2024

Cry baby give him his Joe ba ba …….

— rob mitchell (@drumfreeks) January 20, 2024

I love to see him cry.

— 2Buggs (@KixMoxie2) January 20, 2024

Adam Kryzinger pic.twitter.com/Sw54mCJ3w5

— BeverlyConservative (@BeverlyConserv1) January 20, 2024

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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