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]]>Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to President Trump and one of his longest-serving aides, is leaving the White House at the end of the month.
Conway, whose title is counselor to the president, was Trump’s third campaign manager in 2016 and the first woman to successfully manage a presidential bid to victory. She joined the White House at the start of Trump’s term and has been one of his most visible and vocal defenders.
Conway informed Trump of her decision Sunday night in the Oval Office.
Her husband, George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer and outspoken critic of the president, is also stepping back from his role on the Lincoln Project, an outside group of Republicans devoted to defeating Trump in November. He will also take a hiatus from Twitter, the venue he has often used to attack the president.
In a statement, Conway called her time in the Trump administration “heady” and “humbling,” and said she and George were making the decision based on what they think is best for their four children.
“We disagree about plenty,” she wrote of her and her husband, “but we are united on what matters most: the kids. Our four children are teens and ‘tweens starting a new academic year in the middle school and high school that will be conducted remotely from home for at least a few months. As millions of parents nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’ requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times.”
Conway continued: “This is completely my choice and my voice. In time, I will announce future plans. For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.”
Conway’s high school daughter had drawn attention for tweets about her parents and politics.
On Sunday, however, she also tweeted that social media was “becoming way too much,” so she had decided to take “a mental health break.”
“See y’all soon,” she wrote. “Thank you for the love and support. No hate to my parents please.”
Conway’s announcement comes on the eve of the Republican National Convention as Trump seeks to gain momentum for a tough reelection battle ahead.
She has been intimately involved in the convention planning, and will be speaking Wednesday night on the theme of “everyday heroes.” She spent Saturday at the campaign headquarters in her personal capacity.
Conway outlasted many of her colleagues from the campaign and the White House to become one of Trump’s longest-serving aides, proving herself to be a survivor in a workplace that has had historical levels of turnover.
The Conways became an object of fascination as George Conway ramped up his criticism of the president in 2018 while Kellyanne Conway remained a top adviser to Trump.
George Conway has written, among other things, that Trump is not mentally fit to be president.
The president has voiced anger at times about George Conway’s comments, calling him a “a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.”
Before making her decision, Conway had been in discussions with the Trump campaign. Senior advisers on the campaign had suggested she take a leave of absence from the White House to join Trump’s reelection effort, and anticipated a significant role where she would travel to two states a day between now and the election.
But Conway said she could not envision herself in that role right now, spending so much time away from her family.
In her statement, Conway also expressed her gratitude to Trump, his wife, Melania, Vice President Pence and his wife, Karen, as well her colleagues in the administration.
“The incredible men, women and children I’ve met along the way have reaffirmed by later-in-life experience that public service can be meaningful and consequential,” she wrote. “For all of its political differences and cultural cleavages, this is a beautiful country filled with amazing people. The promise of America belongs to us all.”
Conway was a controversial figure at times, particularly over her flouting of a law, the Hatch Act, that prohibits public employees from using their official capacity to conduct political activity.
In March 2018, the Office of the Special Counsel said she violated federal law on two occasions by making public comments supportive of one candidate and against another ahead of a special Senate election in Alabama in 2017.
The White House dismissed the finding, saying Conway was reflecting the views of the president.
Conway was a frequent guest on television programs, known for her defense of the president and sharp put downs aimed at his opponents.
She drew criticism for an appearance early in the Trump administration when she defended then-press secretary Sean Spicer after he falsely stated that Trump’s swearing-in ceremony drew “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.”
She told NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that Spicer was using “alternative facts,” a phrase that critics of the administration have continued to highlight as evidence of Trump and his White House not being honest with the public.
Conway, a veteran GOP pollster and strategist, joined the Trump campaign in July 2016 after working for a super PAC that supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and was highly critical of Trump.
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]]>Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the president and one of the longest fixtures in the Trump White House, will leave her position at the end of the month to focus on her family, she tweeted late Sunday.
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She posted on Twitter late Sunday that her husband, George Conway, a fierce critic of President Trump, will also make unspecified changes.
“We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids,” she said in a statement. “Our four children are teens and ‘tweens starting a new academic year, in middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months.”
She said the decision to exit the White House—months before the election—was “completely” her choice and once again pointed out her devotion to her children and said there will be less “drama, more mama.”
Conway has been one of the most effective envoys for Trump and has seldom backed down from questions from the press and the target of criticism from Democrats. She helped him win election in 2016 as his campaign manager.
George Conway has told The Washington Post that he has had a number of conversations with Trump over the past decade. He described Trump’s presidency as “maddening to watch” and said he himself tweets so he doesn’t “end up screaming” at his wife about the president.
Trump once called him a “stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.”
Kellyanne Conway defended Trump on Fox News on Friday and accused Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee for president, of “arrogance and ignorance” when he spoke about the coronavirus pandemic during his nomination acceptance speech.
“It’s a confounding display of the intersection of arrogance and ignorance because he doesn’t know what we’ve done on COVID-19,” Conway told “The Daily Briefing“.
Conway attempted to put politics aside in the statement and talked about the future of the country and struck an optimistic tone.
“For all of its political differences and cultural cleavages, this is a beautiful country filled with amazing people,” she said. “The promise of America belongs to us all.
Fox News’ Sam Dorman and The Associated Press contributed to this report
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]]>White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday dismissed the Republican endorsements for presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden, saying it doesn’t accurately represent the base.
Several notable Republicans threw their support behind Mr. Biden this week, including former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Cindy McCain, wife of the late Sen. John McCain.
“It’s basically more shrugged shoulders than raised eyebrows,” Mrs. Conway said on Fox News. “I think the question is, what are the rank-and-file Republicans [doing]? Are they sticking with President Trump?”
According to a Gallup poll conducted July 30-Aug. 12, an overwhelming 90% of Republicans approve of Mr. Trump’s performance as president.
That number sharply drops to 39% for independent voters and a mere 5% for Democrats.
Mrs. Conway said Mr. Trump will make his case next week as the “health care president” and the only one capable of rebuilding the economy.
“It’s our time to show … if not for Donald Trump and Mike Pence being in the White House these people would not have a job, they would not have PPP loans,” she said.
The Republican National Convention is scheduled to start Monday and last through Thursday.
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]]>There’s “really no time” for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “petty partisan politics” over coronavirus, White House counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway asserted Wednesday.
In an interview on “America’s Newsroom,” Conway said that while the Trump administration is trying to work together with Congress to “get a Phase IV passed that the president will sign” to help schools, small businesses and families, Pelosi is making TV appearances with “matching scarves.”
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On Tuesday, Pelosi, D-Calif., called COVID-19 the “Trump virus,” blaming President Trump’s “inaction” – and refusal to wear a mask – for many Americans “suffering.”
“But, she’s hardly been a profile in courage on this virus all along. She’s the one encouraging people to go out into Chinatown in San Francisco. She trips over the poor homeless population in her own San Francisco, I guess, to make these silly appearances a couple [of] times a week,” Conway remarked.
“This is no time for partisan politics,” she reiterated.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 15, 2020, to mark two months since House passage of “The Heroes Act” or the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The president has also been criticized for his own labels of the deadly disease, coining the terms “Kung Flu” and China virus.”
CBS News reported earlier this month that more than 2,100 anti-Asian American hate incidents related to COVID-19 have been recorded across the United States over a three-month time span between March and June.
Since the pandemic spread to the United States, there have been almost 4 million cases reported and more than 142,000 Americans have lost their lives.
Conway told host Martha MacCallum that she was disappointed in Pelosi and in Democratic leaders.
“I think it’s really disappointing to hear the speaker of the House – the highest-ranking woman in our nation’s government – call this the ‘Trump virus’ and not the ‘China virus,'” she said.
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“I think it’s disappointing to hear the mayor of Chicago say, ‘I don’t want Trump’s troops here,’” Conway added. “These are not Trump’s troops. This is not Trump’s virus. Those troops work for all of us.”
“And, if the mayors of Portland and Chicago can’t stop babies from being shot, can’t stop murders from happening…When they say, ‘we don’t want Trump’s troops,’ listen: these people have to get their cities under control,” she concluded. “This has been 55 days.”
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