Poor Adam Kinzinger. Now a CNN benchwarmer, the former Republican Congressman still can't get former President Donald Trump out of his TDS-riddled head. And with Trump's campaign running on all cylinders and his remaining contenders reduced to also-rans, Kinzinger finds the whole thing "pretty disheartening."

During a segment on "Anderson Cooper 360º," Kinzinger first told the equally Trump-loathing host that he was so distraught about South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott's enthusiastic endorsement of Trump that he questioned Scott's soul — from a biblical perspective.

I never expected this from Tim. I know him…as a decent man, as somebody that’s concerned about character. But he chose to put himself and his political career above his character as so many other people have.

“Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to the Senate. She made him a U.S. Senator where he could then become a national figure and then launch his campaign for president that failed, and he could have waited until after New Hampshire. 

But there is something that’s going on in people’s souls where it’s like, as the Bible says you know, what is to gain the whole world but lose your soul?

Melodramatic, much, Adam? 

Kinzinger then turned to his favorite obsession — ripping on Trump.

There’s [sic] people just wanting to gain the world right now and Donald Trump has done a masterful job of convincing people that they can’t stand up against him and so they won’t. 

Donald Trump is a masterful victim. He is actually one of the weakest men you’ll ever meet. He’s actually somebody that [sic] is scared of his own shadow and he’s frankly scared of everybody, but he puts up a really good front that he’s not and he puts up what appears to be a tough front and it cajoles people like Tim Scott to not even wait ’til after New Hampshire. Give Nikki a shot to actually take it to New Hampshire.

I get where Kinzinger was coming from concerning Scott's pre-New Hampshire primary endorsement of Trump, but he should know that endorsements — while ballyhooed by keyboard jockeys across the fruited plain — don't have much impact on a candidate's performance, if any.

Anderson speaks with former Congressman Adam Kinzinger about the impact of Sen. Tim Scott’s Trump endorsement with four days until the New Hampshire primary. pic.twitter.com/gjQ62pQZMs

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Kinzinger ultimately conceded that Scott's endorsement will likely have little impact, but that's not what he's so pinched up about.

The one thing it does do is it shows the momentum that Donald Trump has been doing — I’ll objectively say — a good job of showing momentum and it’s actually pretty disheartening.

Kinzinger should have said, "I'll begrudgingly say," given his pity party and "pretty disheartening" sniffles. 

No word if Kinzinger called former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney for a good cry after the show.

The Bottom Line

Given that Donald Trump appears all but certain to capture the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, the question is quickly becoming whether the disparate factions of the Republican Party will coalesce around his campaign in November if he does win the nomination.

Given the last three years of the disastrous Biden administration and the continuing leftward drift of the Democrat Party, why would they not? 

Moreover, if Biden finds himself booted to the curb before the Democrat National Convention in August, and either Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama ends up the party's nominee, the question — and answer — get even more serious, with addled Joe Biden no longer a factor. 

Think about it, gang.