Kelly Knight Craft
Kelly Knight Craft (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Kentucky. She lost in the Republican primary on May 16, 2023.
Craft was confirmed to the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on July 31, 2019, by a U.S. Senate vote of 56-34.[1] She served until her resignation on January 19, 2021.[2]
On February 22, 2019, President Donald Trump (R) announced on Twitter that he would nominate Craft to be the 30th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump tweeted, "I am pleased to announce that Kelly Knight Craft, our current Ambassador to Canada, is being nominated to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations...Kelly has done an outstanding job representing our Nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at the highest level. Congratulations to Kelly and her entire family!"[3][4]
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is responsible for assisting the President of the United States and the U.S. Department of State in conducting U.S. policy at the United Nations, an international organization founded in 1945 with 193 member states.[5][6]
Craft was confirmed to the position of U.S. ambassador to Canada by voice vote by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.[7]
Craft was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.[8]
Biography
Kelly Knight Craft earned a degree from the University of Kentucky. Craft's career experience includes founding a marketing and business advisory firm.[9] She served as a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and to Canada under the Donald Trump presidential administration, a member of the RNC Rules Committee, the co-chair of the finance committee for U.S. Senator Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Kentucky, an alternate delegate to the United Nations under the George W. Bush presidential administration, and the finance chair of the Republican Party of Kentucky.[2][9][10][11][12]
Elections
2023
See also: Kentucky gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2023
General election
General election for Governor of Kentucky
Incumbent Andy Beshear defeated Daniel Cameron and Brian Fishback in the general election for Governor of Kentucky on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Andy Beshear (D) | 52.5 | 694,482 |
 | Daniel Cameron (R) | 47.5 | 627,457 | |
 | Brian Fishback (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 83 | |
| Total votes: 1,322,022 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Kentucky
Incumbent Andy Beshear defeated Geoff M. Young and Peppy Martin in the Democratic primary for Governor of Kentucky on May 16, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Andy Beshear | 91.3 | 176,589 |
 | Geoff M. Young | 5.1 | 9,865 | |
 | Peppy Martin | 3.6 | 6,913 | |
| Total votes: 193,367 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Kentucky
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Kentucky on May 16, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Daniel Cameron | 47.7 | 144,576 |
 | Ryan Quarles | 21.7 | 65,718 | |
 | Kelly Knight Craft | 17.2 | 52,170 | |
 | Eric Deters | 5.8 | 17,464 | |
 | Mike Harmon | 2.6 | 7,797 | |
 | Alan Keck | 2.4 | 7,317 | |
 | David Cooper | 0.8 | 2,282 | |
 | Jacob Clark | 0.6 | 1,900 | |
 | Robbie Smith | 0.5 | 1,388 | |
 | Bob DeVore | 0.3 | 931 | |
| Johnny Ray Rice | 0.2 | 726 | |
| Denny Ormerod | 0.2 | 696 | |
| Total votes: 302,965 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Savannah Maddox (R)
Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kelly Knight Craft did not complete Ballotpedia's 2023 Candidate Connection survey.
Nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
President Donald Trump (R) formally nominated Craft to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on May 2, 2019.[12] She was confirmed to the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on July 31, 2019, by a U.S. Senate vote of 56-34.[1]
| Nomination tracker | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate: Kelly Knight Craft | ||
| Position: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations | ||
| Confirmation progress | ||
 | Announced: | May 2, 2019 |
| Hearing: | June 19, 2019 |
| Committee: | July 25, 2019 |
| Reported: | July 25, 2019 |
| Confirmed: | July 31, 2019 |
| Vote: | 56-34 |
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Knight was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[13]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
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.[14][15]
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.[14][15][16]
Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Craft 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.[17]
See also
2023 Elections
- U.S. Mission to the United Nations
- Donald Trump potential high-level administration appointments
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Kentucky, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Politico, "Trump's pick for top envoy to the U.N. gets Senate approval," July 31, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Twitter, "Kelly Craft," January 20, 2021
- ↑ Twitter, "Donald J. Trump," accessed February 22, 2019
- ↑ Politico, "Trump formally nominates Kelly Craft for U.N. ambassador," May 2, 2019
- ↑ USUN.State.gov, "About," accessed April 24, 2017
- ↑ UN.org, "About," accessed April 24, 2017
- ↑ Congress.gov, "PN603 — Kelly Knight Craft — Department of State," accessed February 26, 2019
- ↑ Cincinnati.com, "Kentucky GOP releases list of delegates," April 25, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CA.USEmbassy.gov, "Ambassador Kelly Craft," accessed February 26, 2019
- ↑ The American Presidency Project, "Press Release - Mitt Romney Announces Kentucky Finance Chairs," November 7, 2011
- ↑ Glasgow Daily Times, "Bush nominates Knight for UN," September 13, 2007
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 White House, "Seven Nominations Sent to the Senate," May 2, 2019
- ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Memorandum on Binding of RNC Members," January 29, 2016
- ↑ 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.
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