A Democratic strategist just proved that she has a Ph.D. in STFU.
Democratic strategist Ashley Allison tore MAGA defender Scott Jennings a new one Sunday after he took a pretty dumb dig at Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan.
To make matters even more embarrassing, Allison also threw Jennings’ support of ousted press secretary Katie Zacharia in his face during the episode of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live.”
The fiery moment occurred while the panel discussed a rage-bait question El-Sayed received Saturday night in deep-red Caro, Michigan.
The audience member, who identified himself as “Tommy,” asked El-Sayed if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood — a near-century-old Islamist movement whose offshoots include both nonviolent political factions and extremist groups like Hamas and al Qaeda.
El-Sayed — who would be the United States’ first Muslim senator if elected — shut down the question by saying he disavows the Muslim Brotherhood and that his allegiance is to the U.S. Constitution. He then proceeded to call out the audience member for weaponizing religion.
El-Sayed posted footage of the exchange, which he clearly won, on X, but Jennings had a pretty weird take on the now-viral moment.
“He’s finally being pressed on it, and when he gets pressed on it, he’s obviously a little defensive and has thin skin,” Jennings claimed. “So I’d say this conversation, advantage Republican.”
Allison was flabbergasted.
“You want to know about his past? His past? He’s a Rhodes Scholar. His past? He’s been to medical school,” Allison said, referring to El-Sayed’s medical degree from Columbia University and second doctorate at Oxford University.
“Is he a doctor?” Jennings interjected.
“He’s an M.D.,” Allison replied. “Do you have an M.D.? J.D.? Ph.D.?”
“Can he write you a prescription?” Jennings shot back.
At this, Allison went off and began with one point about the now-axed Zacharia.
Just days prior to her firing, Jennings defended the former press secretary, saying he was affording her a “little grace” after her single, and disastrous, White House press conference last week.
“Let me tell you something,” Allison began. “I would not have your party being the one out here questioning qualifications when you just had to fire a press secretary because she was lying on her name,” Allison said, referring to Zacharia passing herself off as an attorney even though she never passed the bar exam.
But Allison wasn’t done chewing out Jennings. She admonished him for echoing the GOP’s fearmongering tactics by telling Jennings that his argument about El-Sayed was “pathetic.”
“You should be above this,” Allison said.
She continued, “It’s disrespectful; it is un-American, actually. It should not be a part of our democratic process, but you’re doing it to otherize him.”
“You’re doing it to make people afraid, and I believe the voters of Michigan, Black, white and everything in between, will see through it,” she added.
Watch Allison and Jennings’ exchange on CNN below.