CNN commentator Scott Jennings said during a Friday segment that he was starting to feel like he needed to “take up for” President Joe Biden as the wolves within his own party circle and call for his ouster.

Jennings, a Republican, made the comments during a panel discussion — hosted by Abby Phillip and including former CNN host Brian Stelter — about the disarray within the Democratic Party as multiple prominent Democrats come forward and say they don’t have confidence that Biden can beat former President Donald Trump or that he has the cognitive abilities to serve another four-year term as president.

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Folks, we need to take up for President Biden. The “party of democracy” is organizing an undemocratic coup against our President & we need to speak up for the very fabric of our Constitution. My latest tonight on @cnn w/ @abbydphillip & friends. pic.twitter.com/WdgITPmay1

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 20, 2024

“I feel like I need to take up for the president here,” Jennings said, prompting laughs from the panel. “Because he won millions and millions of votes to earn the Democratic nomination, and I find it delicious that the ‘party of democracy’ is no organizing a coup against the sitting President of the United States. It’s crazy!”

“It’s very telling that that is the talking point for Republicans,” Phillip replied. “The democratic process — but they want Joe Biden in this race. The Trump campaign wants Joe Biden in this race.”

“Yeah, despite what — every time Karen and I are on TV, she says, ‘Well I heard getting five points for Joe’ — if everything you said was true, he’d be ahead 100 to nothing,” Jennings continued. “Why is Donald Trump winning? Joe Biden has a terrible, terrible approval rating, A, so the results of the presidency are already — people have lost confidence in that, and B, everybody knows he’s not even capable of being president today let alone for four more years. No Project 2025 malarkey is going to change any of that.”

“The contours of this race are set,” Jennings concluded. “A failed president and someone who’s not fit for the job, that’s why Trump is winning.”