Scott Jennings
| Scott Jennings | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | RunSwitch PR |
| Role: | Partner |
| Location: | Louisville, Ky. |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | University of Louisville |
Scott Jennings is a public relations consultant operating in the state of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Louisville, Jennings has worked in Kentucky politics as a senior advisor for a pro-Mitch McConnell Super PAC, Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, and has worked on presidential campaigns for former President George W. Bush (R) and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R).[1] In 2015, The Washington Post reported that Jennings had signed on as an advisor to Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign.[2]
Career
Scott Jennings began his career as a journalist in Kentucky, first as a reporter with WHAS radio and then with the Kentucky News Network. In 2000, he began working as a political operative, running the Kentucky campaign for George W. Bush's first presidential bid. Jennings also ran campaigns for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2002 and 2008. After the 2008 election, when he worked on the New Mexico portion of Bush's re-election campaign, Jennings began a three-year stay in the White House as a special assistant to the president and deputy director of political affairs.[3]
Jennings founded RunSwitch PR in 2012 with Steve Bryant and Gary Gerdemann. In that same year, he was the Ohio state director for the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.[1] In the 2014 election cycle, Jennings worked for two separate groups that supported the re-election of Sen. Mitch McConnell. Jennings was a top advisor to Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, a Super PAC that supported McConnell. The group spent $6.4 million on ads supporting McConnell throughout the general election.[4] Jennings was also employed by the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that spent over $8 million on issue advertising that opposed Alison Lundergan Grimes in her effort to oust McConnell.[5][6] New York Magazine noted Jennings' influence on the 2014 Senate race, saying, "Scott Jennings is charming, he’s fun, he’s dressed prosperous-dad-casual in an Owensboro Country Club polo shirt and khakis. He’s also lethal."[7]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
| Scott Jennings | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | Delegate |
| State: | Kentucky |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
Jennings was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.[8] In the Kentucky Republican caucuses on March 5, 2016, Donald Trump received 17 delegates, Ted Cruz received 15, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich received seven each. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Jennings was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Kentucky’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[9]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention were selected by nomination committees and approved at the county and state conventions. Kentucky GOP rules required national convention delegates to have supported the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Kentucky GOP rules and Kentucky state law required delegates from Kentucky to vote for the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention. If a candidate died or withdrew prior to the first round of voting at the national convention, the chairman of the Kentucky delegation was to call a meeting at which the delegates were to vote on the remaining candidates and be reallocated on the basis of the results.
Kentucky caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Kentucky, 2016
| Kentucky Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
35.9% | 82,493 | 17 | |
| Ted Cruz | 31.6% | 72,503 | 15 | |
| Marco Rubio | 16.4% | 37,579 | 7 | |
| John Kasich | 14.4% | 33,134 | 7 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.8% | 1,951 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.4% | 872 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 496 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.1% | 305 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.1% | 174 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0% | 65 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0% | 64 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 31 | 0 | |
| Totals | 229,667 | 46 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Republican Party of Kentucky | ||||
Delegate allocation
Kentucky had 46 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 18 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's six congressional districts). District delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any district delegates.[10][11]
Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any 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. The RNC delegates were allocated in the same manner as the at-large delegates.[10][11][12]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 RunSwitch PR, "Scott Jennings," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Meet the people who will try to get Jeb Bush elected president," June 15, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "The Arena: Scott Jennings," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ Open Secrets, "Kentuckians for Strong Leadership," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ Al Jazeera America, "5 days in Kentucky: Following the dark money," October 9, 2014
- ↑ Open Secrets, "Kentucky Opportunity Coalition," accessed October 27, 2015
- ↑ New York Magazine, "American Derby," August 27, 2014
- ↑ Cincinnati.com, "Kentucky GOP releases list of delegates," April 25, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Memorandum on Binding of RNC Members," January 29, 2016
