Kellyanne Conway

Kellyanne Conway
Official portrait, 2017
Senior Counselor to the President
In office
January 20, 2017 – August 31, 2020
Serving with Steve Bannon (2017)
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJohn Podesta
(as Counselor, 2015)
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born
Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

(1967-01-20) January 20, 1967 (age 57)
Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
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(m. 2001; sep. 2023)​
Children4
Education
Signature

Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway (née Fitzpatrick; born January 20, 1967) is an American political consultant and pollster who served as Senior Counselor to the President in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2020.[1][2][3][4] She was previously Trump's campaign manager, having been appointed in August 2016; Conway is the first woman to have run a successful U.S. presidential campaign.[5] She has previously held roles as campaign manager and strategist in the Republican Party and was formerly president and CEO of the Polling Company/WomanTrend.[6]

Conway lived in Trump World Tower from 2001 to 2008 and conducted private polls for Trump in late 2013 when he was considering running for governor of New York. In the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, Conway initially endorsed Ted Cruz and chaired a pro-Cruz political action committee.[7][8][9][10] After Cruz withdrew from the race, Trump appointed Conway as a senior advisor and later campaign manager.[11][12] On December 22, 2016, Trump announced that Conway would join his administration as counselor to the president.[13] On November 29, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Conway would oversee White House efforts to combat the opioid overdose epidemic.[14][15]

After Trump's inauguration, Conway was embroiled in a series of controversies: using the phrase "alternative facts" to describe fictitious and disproven attendance numbers for Trump's inauguration; speaking multiple times of a "Bowling Green massacre" that never occurred; and claiming that Michael Flynn had the full confidence of the president hours before he was dismissed. Members of Congress from both parties called for an investigation of an apparent ethics violation after she publicly endorsed commercial products associated with the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump.[16] In June 2019, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel recommended that Conway be fired for "unprecedented" multiple violations of the Hatch Act of 1939.[17]

In August 2020, Conway left the administration. This came after months of a public feud between herself and her teenage daughter, Claudia, who lambasted her in the media, politically and personally, and threatened to seek legal emancipation.[18][19][20] In 2022, Conway joined Fox News as a contributor. She frequently appears as a guest/host on a variety of programs, including Hannity, The Five, Outnumbered, The Big Weekend Show, and more. Conway also contributed to Fox's 2022 Midterm Election coverage. Since 2024, Conway has been paid by the Club for Growth to advocate on behalf of TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance.

In July 2024, Fox News announced that Conway will host a weekly program on the network's streaming platform, Fox Nation, called Here's The Deal with Kellyanne Conway.

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  2. ^ "Executive Office Of The President Annual Report To Congress On White House Office Personnel White House Office As Of: Friday, June 29, 2018" (PDF). whitehouse.gov. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2023 – via National Archives.
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  5. ^ Lange, Jeva (November 9, 2016). "Kellyanne Conway becomes first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign". The Week. New York City. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2016. Hillary Clinton may not have been elected president, but other glass ceilings were shattered on Election Day nonetheless. One such historic moment came from Trump's own camp, where Kellyanne Conway became the first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign.
  6. ^ "The Polling Company". Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2017. Effective January 20th, 2017, Kellyanne Conway has resigned as President and CEO of the polling company/WomanTrend. Brett Loyd, previously Director of Political Services, has been named the new President and CEO.
  7. ^ "Why Donald Trump Picked Kellyanne Conway to Manage his Campaign". Time. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  8. ^ Lizza, Ryan (October 8, 2016). "Kellyanne Conway's Political Machinations". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  9. ^ Trump's campaign manager cashes in Archived November 28, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Politico, October 3, 2016, retrieved January 2, 2017.
  10. ^ Campbell, Colin (January 25, 2016). "Pro-Ted Cruz super PAC roasts Donald Trump in new TV ads" Archived November 8, 2020, at the Wayback Machine. Business Insider. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  11. ^ Sullivan, Sean (July 1, 2016). "Trump hires ex-Cruz super PAC strategist Kellyanne Conway". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 14, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  12. ^ Hellmann, Jessie (August 19, 2016). "Trump campaign manager: Manafort was asked to leave". The Hill. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  13. ^ "Trump names Kellyanne Conway as presidential counsellor". BBC News. December 23, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  14. ^ "Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway Is Now Leading His Opioids Strategy". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  15. ^ "Kellyanne Conway will run the White House's opioid crisis efforts". Newsweek. November 29, 2017. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
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  18. ^ Kiefer, Halle (August 24, 2020). "Claudia Conway Reacts on TikTok After Mom Kellyanne Announces Resignation". Vulture. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  19. ^ "Kellyanne Conway resigns as White House adviser". BBC News. August 24, 2020. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  20. ^ Derysh, Igor (August 24, 2020). "Conways take hiatus from politics as daughter reveals plan to seek emancipation over alleged 'abuse'". Salon. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2020.