Scott Jennings (born October 26, 1977) is an American writer and conservative commentator.
He is an on-air contributor for CNN, and writes for CNN.com, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times.
President Bush appointed Jennings to the position of Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs on October 17, 2005.
The White House announced the move in February 2006.
Jennings had previously served as Executive Director of the Bush-Cheney campaign in New Mexico in 2004, and as a staff member of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Kentucky in 2000.
Jennings is a founding partner of RunSwitch Public Relations, Kentucky's largest public relations and public affairs firm since 2013.
He 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.
He is routinely cited as an adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in news publications, and he was part of McConnell's campaigns for the U.S.
Senate in 2002, 2008, and 2014.
He joined the LA Times as a columnist in 2019.
Jennings is a visible presence on the speaking circuit, briefing groups on the political landscape and taking part in panel discussions.He was a Resident Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics in 2018, and became an Adjunct Lecturer in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2019.
He is also heard frequently on NPR's Morning Edition as a conservative political analyst.