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CNN political commentator Scott Jennings is reportedly among those vying to be President-elect Donald Trump’s press secretary.
According to Axios, the competition to represent the incoming administration is “fierce,” with Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt, legal spokeswoman Alina Habba, and former Trump administration official and former Fox News personality Monica Crowley all making their case.
Ex-ESPN host Sage Steele, Jennings — who previously worked in the Bush White House — and RNC spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko “are also vying for the role,” per Axios.
Despite being critical of Trump after the end of his presidency and during the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Jennings emerged as one of the former and future president’s most reliable and impassioned advocates on cable news during the last few months of the general election, riling up his CNN colleagues and delighting conservative onlookers.
Last Wednesday, Jennings called Trump’s victory a “a big deal,” and “mandate” to implement his agenda.
“This isn’t backing into the office. This is a mandate to do what you said you were going to do. Get the economy working again for regular working-class Americans. Fix immigration. Try to get crime under control. Try to reduce the chaos in the world. This is a mandate from the American people to do that. I think I’m interpreting the results tonight as the revenge of just a regular old working-class American,” he argued.
“I also feel like this election, as we sit here and pore over this tonight, is something of an indictment of the political information complex,” continued Jennings. “I mean, we’ve been sitting around it for the last couple of weeks, and the story that was portrayed was not true. And we were told Puerto Rico was going to change election. Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley voters, women lying to their husbands. Before that, it was Tim Walz and the camo hats. Night after night after night. We were told all these things and gimmicks were going to somehow push Harris over the line, and we were just ignoring the fundamentals.”
According to Mediaite’s Diana Falzone, Habba has emerged as the early frontrunner for the role, though no decision has been made yet.
