Ex-GOP Rep Predicts Bleak Way Trump Will Be Remembered By Supporters
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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday predicted how Donald Trump will eventually go down in history among his own fans ― and he doesn’t think it will be the greatest of legacies for the former president.
“I think in five or 10 years there’s not going to be a single person ― this is just my prediction ― in America that will ever admit they were a Trump supporter,” Kinzinger said on NBC’s “Meet the Press Now.”
“I think once this emotion’s gone and this election passes, people are going to wake up, they have to, I hope they do, wake up to just how bad it had gotten,” he explained.
Kinzinger’s prediction would largely depend on Trump not winning the 2024 election. Currently, though ― and despite four upcoming criminal trials ― Trump is the clear GOP front-runner, and recent polling suggested he would beat President Joe Biden in five key swing states if they were to meet in a rematch next year.
Kinzinger said he voted for Trump in 2020 even after becoming a fierce critic of him during his one-term presidency.
The former Illinois congressman was one of two House Republicans who sat on the House Jan. 6 committee that investigated the deadly U.S. Capitol riot in 2021. He also voted for Trump’s impeachment over the insurrection.
Kinzinger retired from Congress earlier this year.
Watch Kinzinger’s comments here:
WATCH: @AdamKinzinger predicts there will not be “a single person” in “5 or 10 years” who would “ever admit they were a Trump supporter.”
Once “this election passes, people are going to wake up. They have to.” pic.twitter.com/RFw2yLYXoW— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 10, 2023
