1. Scott Jennings was born on October 26,1977 and is an American conservative political strategist and writer.
27 Facts About Scott Jennings
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Scott Jennings worked in the George W Bush administration and has been described as an adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell.
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Scott Jennings is an opinion contributor for CNN, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Scott Jennings is a founding partner of RunSwitch Public Relations, Kentucky's largest public relations firm, since 2013.
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Scott Jennings has been writing a regular column for the Louisville Courier-Journal since 2013, and was signed as an on-air contributor by CNN in 2017.
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Scott Jennings is routinely cited as an adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell, and was part of McConnell's campaigns for the US Senate in 2002,2008, and 2014.
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Scott Jennings joined the Los Angeles Times as a columnist in 2019.
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Scott Jennings served as associate director in the Office of Political Affairs at the White House before being named special assistant to the president in October 2005.
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Scott Jennings is frequently quoted by media outlets as a political analyst.
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Scott Jennings has made hundreds of appearances on the network on AC360 with Anderson Cooper, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and other programs.
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Scott Jennings arrived in early 2004 to find a divided state Republican Party.
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Between 2000 and 2003, Scott Jennings directed the political operations for Bush's presidential campaign, Senator Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign, and Ernie Fletcher's gubernatorial campaign.
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Scott Jennings resumed his work in Kentucky in 2008, helping US Senator Mitch McConnell, Congressman Brett Guthrie, and state legislative Republicans win their races.
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In 2019, Scott Jennings made television and radio ads for Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first stand-alone African-American candidate to win statewide office in Kentucky.
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In 2007, Scott Jennings was mentioned in an inquiry into the politicization of the General Services Administration.
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Scott Jennings was involved in the dismissal of US attorneys controversy in early 2007 testifying on August 2,2007, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Scott Jennings invoked executive privilege and refused to answer most questions, claiming the president George W Bush had ordered his non-compliance.
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Scott Jennings ran a Super PAC known as Kentuckians for Strong Leadership that supported the re-election of Mitch McConnell during the 2014 US Senate election in Kentucky.
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Scott Jennings became a contributing columnist to the Louisville Courier-Journal in 2013, writing a conservative column that appears every other Wednesday.
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Scott Jennings' columns are frequently picked up by Gannett's flagship USA Today.
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In 2018 and 2021, Scott Jennings won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his Courier-Journal writing.
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In June 2017, Scott Jennings joined CNN as a political contributor, along with former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, former John Kasich chief strategist John Weaver, former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, former Obama national security aide Shawn Turner and Yale Law School associate dean and former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa.
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In 2017, it was reported in various news outlets that Scott Jennings had been offered, but turned down, a senior role in the Trump White House.
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Scott Jennings was named a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School for the Spring 2018 semester.
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Scott Jennings taught a series of seminars on tribalism in American politics, and attracted such guest lecturers to his class as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former White House Chief of Staff and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.
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Scott Jennings was named a Los Angeles Times contributing columnist in the fall of 2019.
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Scott Jennings is married to Autumn Stiff Scott Jennings of Whitesville, Kentucky; they have four children and live in Prospect, Kentucky.