There’s no room in the GOP anymore for Adam Kinzinger, who burned MAGA bridges by daring to hold Pres. Trump accountable for the January 6 th insurrection. But within a potential Kamala Harris administration? Maybe so.
The vice president recently pledged, if elected, to appoint at least one Republican to her cabinet. In an interview with Deadline at the Toronto International Film Festival, the former Congressman from Illinois said if offered a position, he would accept. “Certainly, yeah,” he told us.
“I mean, look, there’s no greater honor than serving an administration. And obviously I’ve supported Kamala, I’m endorsing her.” Kinzinger is the focus of the documentary The Last Republican , which held its world premiere at TIFF on Saturday.
He came by our Toronto studio with director Steve Pink, a Hollywood filmmaker (and ardent progressive) best known for directing Hot Tub Time Machine . Kinzinger was approached by many suitors hoping to tell his story after he famously served on the January 6 th Congressional investigating committee; he chose Pink because of that much-loved 2010 time-traveling comedy. “It was just at my squadron [in the Air National Guard], we always quote Hot Tub Time Machine ,” Kinzinger said.
“And when I found out that he directed and wrote Hot Tub Time Machine , I was like, all right, we’ll do this.” Pink had to reckon with the chasm that separates him from his protagonist in terms of their political philosophies. “Adam did so.