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Scott Jennings cornered on CNN over Trump's 'communist' political ads: 'What is this?'

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Conservative strategist Scott Jennings got more than he bargained for from CNN's Kaitlin Collins and Ashley Allison, the former national coalitions director for the Biden campaign in 2020. Jennings appeared on "The Source" on Monday, where Collins asked him about President Donald Trump's decision to stump for Republicans ahead of the midterms and two recently released political ads paid for with federal tax money . Jennings noted that the ads are part of Trump's strategy to churn turnout among Republican voters, but his attempt to deflect concerns about the ads, which he described as "public service announcements," fell flat. "I think a reasonable person could look at these and be mad about it, and I think a reasonable person could look at it and say, 'Well, other presidents have also run PSA's,'" Jennings said. "If I had offered any advice on it, it would have been [that a] PSA is fine. I probably wouldn't have cut and pasted material from a previous campaign ad, which I've read that