Remember Al Franken? The Failed actor and shamed politician went toe-to-toe against CNN political analyst Scott Jennings and lost! The accused sexual predator tripped over his own lie and when Jennings ripped him apart over it, he begged CNN host Jim Acosta to save him.
Democrats are in full panic now that the midterms are here and they build their platform on anti-Trump rhetoric and abortions rather than issues that voters are actually concerned about—Like, crime, inflation, immigration, and the energy crisis. In yet another moment of “lapsed judgment” the former Democrat, Franken, falsely claimed that Republicans are coming for Social Security and Medicare.
“McCarthy said and Scalise has said that the first thing they’re going to do is cut Social Security and Medicare and you’re going, they can’t do it, unless the President vetoes it, but they’re gonna hold–they say they’re gonna hold the debt limit hostage,” Franken falsely claimed.
“I’ve been there when they tried to hold the debt limit hostage. And you know what would happen if it went over if we let that happen?” Franken asked. “The world economy would fall apart. The U.S. dollar would cease to be the go-to currency in the world. It would be an economic disaster.”
“That’s not what Republicans are saying at all. Republicans have an advantage in this election because they’re actually running on the issues that all the polls tell us that the most people care about. Inflation, economy, crime,” Jennings said in response.
“The problem for the Democrats in this election is they’re fishing off the wrong pier,” Jennings continued. “They made their entire bet, their entire bet was on abortion, and abortion has fallen down to sixth, seventh, or eighth place.”
Continuing to tear into Franken and his false narratives, Jennings noted: “I can read a poll, and right now what I’m seeing in the polls is that voters don’t think that the Democrats are good enough or smart enough and doggone it, they just don’t like ‘em. That’s the bottom line.”
Franken almost lost it and the two carried on back and forth over the defamed Democrat’s blatant lie. Franken was clearly frustrated that Acosta wasn’t jumping in to save him and help him lie, so he turned to Acosta to ask for help “fact-checking” Jennings.
“Jim, why don’t you fact-check it? You can see, there’s plenty of coverage of it,” Franken frantically asked.
Jennings snapped back at Franken one last time before the segment ended shouting, “There was a fact check this week”. Joe Biden made the same claim and Washington Post deemed that it was a big fat lie. “It’s a scare tactic,” Jennings concluded.
