8 Things You Never Knew About Kellyanne Conway
“Kellyanne Conway has been a trusted advisor and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory. She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message. I am pleased that she will be part of my senior team in the West Wing,” Trump said in a statement to Politico.
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Since she’ll have a big role in the new administration, you might want a little more info on who she is and where she came from.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. She owns a polling company.
In 1995, Conway founded The Polling Company, Inc., a research and consulting firm that has offices in D.C. and New York City. The company’s clients include American Express, Boeing, and Major League Baseball, according to its website.
2. She’s a trained lawyer.
Conway is a “fully recovered attorney,” according to her official company bio, and is able to practice law in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. She graduated from George Washington University Law Center with honors.
3. She’s a political trailblazer.
According to Bloomberg, Conway is the first woman to manage a Republican presidential campaign. In the statement announcing her appointment as counselor to the president, Trump’s team said that her role in his victory has, “shattered the glass ceiling for women,” according to Politico.
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4. She’s a busy mom.
Conway has four kids under the age of 12. “My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea for mom going inside [the White House],” Conway told the audience at Politico’s Women Rule event at the Park Hyatt in Washington, D.C., per ABC News, prior to being offered her new gig. “They have to come first, and those are very fraught ages.”
5. She’s big on patriotism.
Conway shared a story with the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which she says she insisted that her daughter change out of a turquoise shirt into a blue one on Memorial Day. “She goes, ‘Turquoise is blue.’ And it is. But it wasn’t a shade available to Betsy Ross when she stayed up through the night sewing the damn flag,” Conway said.
6. She’s not a fan of Hillary Clinton’s decision to stay with Bill.
Conway has criticized Clinton over her husband’s alleged extramarital relationships, saying, per The Washington Post, “The fact is that Hillary Clinton could not stand up to a cheating husband, so how in the world would she stand up to North Korea and some of our other enemies around the globe?”
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7. She wants women to look at feminism differently.
In a 2015 article published in The Atlantic, Conway said there’s an alternative to “the progressive, liberal orthodoxy that has every woman constantly thinking about abortion, contraception, being a victim of the patriarchy.” She said that putting more conservative women in the public eye will help present “an alternative of fun, engaging accomplished women.”
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8. She’s not into public discussions of rape.
During a 2013 presentation, Conway urged House Republicans to stop talking about rape on the campaign trail, Politico reported. This came not long after former representative Todd Akin of Missouri was lambasted for saying women should only have abortions after becoming pregnant from “legitimate rape.” Around the same time, another Republican running for election said that babies conceived from rape are a “gift from God.”