1. Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is an American political consultant and pollster who served as Senior Counselor to the President in the first presidency of Donald Trump for three years from 2017 and 2020.
52 Facts About Kellyanne Conway
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Kellyanne Conway was previously Trump's campaign manager, having been appointed in August 2016; Conway is the first woman to have run a successful US presidential campaign.
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On December 22,2016, Trump announced that Kellyanne Conway would join his administration as counselor to the president.
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On November 29,2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Kellyanne Conway would oversee White House efforts to combat the opioid overdose epidemic.
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In June 2019, the US Office of Special Counsel recommended that Kellyanne Conway be fired for "unprecedented" multiple violations of the Hatch Act of 1939.
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Since 2024, Kellyanne Conway has been paid by the Club for Growth to advocate on behalf of TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance.
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Kellyanne Conway Elizabeth Fitzpatrick was born on January 20,1967, in Camden, New Jersey, to Diane and John Fitzpatrick, and grew up in the nearby Atco section of Waterford Township, New Jersey.
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Kellyanne Conway's father had German, English, and Irish ancestry, while her mother is of Italian descent; John Fitzpatrick owned a small trucking company, and Diane worked at a bank.
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Kellyanne Conway's parents divorced when she was three, and she was raised by her mother, grandmother, and two unmarried aunts in Atco.
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Kellyanne Conway graduated from St Joseph High School in 1985 as class valedictorian in a high school with 140 students, total.
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Kellyanne Conway entered the polling business when she was in law school, working as a research assistant for Wirthlin Group, a Republican polling firm.
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Kellyanne Conway provided political consulting service to US Representative Jack Kemp, US Senator Fred Thompson, Vice President Dan Quayle, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and US Representative Mike Pence.
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Kellyanne Conway worked as the senior advisor to Gingrich during his unsuccessful 2012 United States presidential election campaign.
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Kellyanne Conway directed demographic and attitudinal survey projects for trade associations and private companies, including American Express, ABC News, Major League Baseball, and Ladies Home Journal.
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Kellyanne Conway's firm included WomanTrend, a research and consulting division.
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Kellyanne Conway appeared as a commentator on polling and politics for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NY1, Fox News, and various radio programs.
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In 2016, Kellyanne Conway endorsed Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy, even though she became acquainted with Donald Trump when living in Trump World Tower years earlier, from 2001 to 2008, and serving on its condo board.
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Kellyanne Conway chaired a pro-Cruz political action committee, Keep the Promise I, which was almost entirely funded by businessman Robert Mercer.
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Kellyanne Conway's organization criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as "extreme" and "not a conservative".
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Kellyanne Conway was expected to advise Trump on how to better appeal to female voters.
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On November 10,2016, Kellyanne Conway publicly tweeted that Trump had offered her a White House job.
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Kellyanne Conway told CNN she was only tweeting what she has shared with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence in private.
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On December 1, Kellyanne Conway appeared with senior aides of the Trump campaign at Harvard Kennedy School for a forum on the 2016 presidential race; the quadrennial post-presidential election forum has been held at the School of Government since 1972.
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Kellyanne Conway's phrase reminded some of "Newspeak", an obfuscatory language style that is a key element of the society portrayed in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
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On February 2,2017, Kellyanne Conway appeared in a television news show interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
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Vox suggested Kellyanne Conway was referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Kellyanne Conway stated the next day that she meant to say "Bowling Green terrorists", both of whom had pleaded guilty to carrying out and supporting attacks on American soldiers in Iraq.
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Kellyanne Conway has been accused of breaching the act on several occasions:.
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Public Citizen asked the Office of Governmental Ethics to investigate, saying that Kellyanne Conway's remarks reflected "an on-going careless regard of the conflicts of interest laws and regulations of some members of the Trump family and Trump Administration".
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Kellyanne Conway argued that Conway violated the Hatch Act when she criticized Doug Jones, a candidate in the 2017 US Senate special election in Alabama.
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Kellyanne Conway continued to make frequent television appearances and comment on political topics.
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On June 13,2019, the OSC formally recommended that Kellyanne Conway be removed from federal service, citing multiple Hatch Act violations by Kellyanne Conway since the preparation of its 2018 report, "by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media".
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On June 26,2019, Kellyanne Conway did not appear at a hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, leading that committee to issue a subpoena for her.
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At that hearing, Special Counsel Henry Kerner testified that Kellyanne Conway had been found guilty of two Hatch Act violations in 2018 and 11 in 2019.
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On February 13,2017, Kellyanne Conway claimed that former national security advisor Michael Flynn had the president's "full confidence".
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Kellyanne Conway came under widespread criticism because her comments about Flynn had been so inaccurate.
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On February 15,2017, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said Kellyanne Conway should be banned from future television appearances.
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Kellyanne Conway came under criticism when she was photographed sitting on an Oval Office couch with her legs folded beneath her and her shoes pressed against the upholstery during President Trump's meeting with leaders from historically black colleges and universities.
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Kellyanne Conway refused President Biden's request that she resign, and argued that her removal from the board broke norms, politicized the post, and would discourage others from serving on such boards in the future.
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Kellyanne Conway, who had no prior connection to the Air Force, had been appointed to the board by Trump in the final weeks of his presidency.
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In November 2022, Kellyanne Conway gave an on the record interview to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
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On March 1,2023, Kellyanne Conway spoke with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office as part of their criminal investigation into Trump.
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Since 2024, Kellyanne Conway has been paid by the Club for Growth to advocate on behalf of the social media app TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance.
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In December 2023, Kellyanne Conway met with congressional Republicans and argued that it was electorally necessary for them to support protections of access to birth control, citing public approval for such protection.
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Kellyanne Conway delivered a speech during on the third night of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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George Kellyanne Conway is a critic of Trump; in December 2019 he co-founded the Lincoln Project, which campaigned against Trump's re-election from a conservative perspective.
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Kellyanne defended Trump by saying that George Conway is "not a psychiatrist" and that Trump should not be expected to respond when George, "a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder".
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Kellyanne Conway's daughter Claudia is a TikTok influencer who became known in 2020, at age 15, for her anti-Trump messages.
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At age 16, Claudia Kellyanne Conway appeared as a contestant on, but was eliminated from, American Idol.
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One of the few White House staffers to have Secret Service protection due to various threats, Kellyanne Conway chose "Blueberry" as her Secret Service code name because of associations with the fruit from her youth in pageants and berry picking.
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In March 2023, George and Kellyanne Conway announced that they were divorcing after 22 years of marriage.
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In 2022, Kellyanne Conway authored Here's the Deal: A Memoir.