Kentucky: Mike Duncan

In an email to Republican National Committee members today, Inez native Mike Duncan announced he would seek a second term as RNC chair. Duncan's campaign rolled out a campaign Web site and ten-minute campaign video as part of his entry into a crowded field of candidates courting 168 voting members of the RNC. Three of those votes seem to be locked up already, however, as Kentucky's voting RNC members announced their intention to support Duncan's re-election bid even before his intentions to seek another term were official.

Kentucky-native Mike Duncan is wrapping up his first term as the chairman of the Republican National Committee after an election in which Republicans took losses in the House and Senate in addition to losing the White House. Around the country, speculation is whirling about potential candidates for the chair position even though Duncan has yet to make an announcement as to whether he intends to seek a second term.

MINNEAPOLIS – While many states' delegations are playing host to high-profile national speakers during their morning breakfasts at the Republican National Convention, Kentuckians are having relatively relaxed mornings at their downtown Minneapolis hotel.

MINNEAPOLIS – Kentucky’s delegates to the Republican National Convention are seated next to the stage at the convention center and are staying, for the duration of the event, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Minneapolis – the same hotel housing the staff and leadership of the Republican National Committee.

The news may come as less of a surprise given that a Kentuckian chairs the RNC. Mike Duncan, a native of the eastern Kentucky town of Inez, has served in that capacity since last year.