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Jennifer Horn
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| Jennifer Horn | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of New Hampshire |
| Role: | Chair |
| Location: | New Hampshire |
Jennifer Horn is a former chair of the Republican Party of New Hampshire. She is a former journalist and radio talk show host. She also ran for Congress in 2008 and 2010.[1]
Horn was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from New Hampshire. Horn was one of three delegates from New Hampshire bound by state party rules to support Jeb Bush at the convention.[2] Jeb Bush suspended his presidential campaign on February 20, 2016.
Career
Horn studied communications at The College of Saint Rose in New York from 1982 to 1986. She worked as a columnist for The Telegraph, a New Hampshire newspaper, from 2002 to 2008.[3]
From 2006 to 2010, Horn hosted "On the Air with Jennifer Horn," a radio talk show on WSMN, a local radio station in New Hampshire. Horn worked as president of We The People from March 2011 to December 2012. We The People was a conservative nonprofit organization that sought "to increase citizen engagement in the democratic process, educate and inform on policy and to host forums on issues related to the Founding Principles with top tier speakers from across the country." After leaving We The People, Horn worked as director of development and community affairs for The Salvation Army in Nashua, N.H., from 2013 to 2014.[3]
In July 2014, Horn became an executive recruiter for Petrocelli Workforce Solutions, a New Hampshire staffing company.[3]
Politics
Horn won the 2008 Republican primary to run for New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District. She lost the general election to Paul W. Hodes (D). She entered the 2010 Republican primary race for the same district but lost to former Representative Charles Bass (R).[4][5]
In January 2013, the Republican Party of New Hampshire elected Horn to a two-year term as the party chair. She was re-elected to the position in 2015.[6][7]
In 2015, Horn, in an interview with The Boston Globe, made critical remarks toward Donald Trump (R) and his 2016 presidential campaign. Following the interview, Trump's New Hampshire campaign chairman, New Hampshire State Representative Stephen Stepanek (R), called on Horn to resign for violating a neutrality rule in the state party's bylaws.[8][9]
Horn issued a statement on March 16, 2016 against the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court of the United States by President Barack Obama (D).[10]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Horn was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from New Hampshire.
Delegate rules
In New Hampshire, presidential candidates were required to submit lists of preferred delegates prior to the state primary election on February 9, 2016. After the primary, if a candidate was allocated any delegates, he or she was allowed to select an official delegate slate from the list they submitted prior to the primary. New Hampshire delegates were bound on all ballots. Delegates were to be released and unbound if a candidate "withdraws" from the race.
New Hampshire primary results
| New Hampshire Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
35.6% | 100,735 | 11 | |
| John Kasich | 15.9% | 44,932 | 4 | |
| Ted Cruz | 11.7% | 33,244 | 3 | |
| Jeb Bush | 11.1% | 31,341 | 3 | |
| Marco Rubio | 10.6% | 30,071 | 1 | |
| Chris Christie | 7.4% | 21,089 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 4.2% | 11,774 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.3% | 6,527 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul* | 0.7% | 1,930 | 0 | |
| Total Write-ins | 0.5% | 1,398 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 134 | 0 | |
| Totals | 283,175 | 22 | ||
| Source: New Hampshire Secretary of State | ||||
*Rand Paul dropped out of the race on February 3, 2016, but his name remained on the ballot in New Hampshire.[11]
Delegate allocation
New Hampshire had 23 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, six were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's two congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; each candidate who won at least 10 percent of the statewide vote was entitled to receive a share of New Hampshire's district delegates.[12][13]
Of the remaining 17 delegates, 14 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; each candidate who won at least 10 percent of the statewide vote was entitled to receive a share of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[12][13]
Top influencers by state
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See also
- New Hampshire
- Republican Party of New Hampshire
- Republican National Committee
- Merrick Garland
- Donald Trump
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican Party of New Hampshire, "Executive Committee," accessed March 24, 2016
- ↑ NH SOS, "Republican Delegates and Alternates to 2016 National Convention," accessed May 3, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Linkedin, "Jennifer Horn," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2008," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ NHPR, "Charlie Bass Wins GOP Primary for 2nd Congressional District," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ Boston Globe, "Jennifer Horn elected to lead NH Republicans," January 27, 2013
- ↑ New Hampshire Journal, "Updated: Jennifer Horn unanimously reelected NHGOP chair, but post to remain unpaid," January 10, 2015
- ↑ The Boston Globe, "N.H. GOP chair doubts Donald Trump can win," November 25, 2015
- ↑ WMUR, "Trump’s top state supporter calls on NHGOP chairwoman to resign following criticism of candidate," November 25, 2015
- ↑ Republican Party of New Hampshire, "NHGOP Statement on Obama's Supreme Court Nominee," March 16, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Rand Paul drops out of White House race," February 3, 2016
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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