JUST IN: CNN’s Scott Jennings Heavily Considering Senate Run
Published 5 hours ago
on April 30, 2025
By Mark Steffen
The race to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may soon be blown wide open in a big way, according to a report that Scott Jennings is mulling whether to launch his own campaign.
The pro-Trump CNN commentator stands ready and at the president’s service should he be needed, Jennings said last week.
“If the president wants me, I’ll run,” he told a reporter during a Washington, D.C., afterparty following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Leveraging President Donald Trump’s support in a state he won by over 30 points last year is critical to winning Kentucky’s Republican primary, a sharp-elbowed affair where McConnell managed to hang on despite multiple conservative primary challengers of his own. With the former Senate majority leader heading for the exit, Jennings would immediately float to the top of a pack that already has some heavy hitters.
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) last week launched his Senate campaign and begins the race with over $5.3 million in available reserves. Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general from 2019 to 2024 and the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2023, left the starting blocks in January with less than half a million dollars on hand, according to the latest campaign filing reports.
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