Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign advisor and Trump administration top aide, Kellyanne Conway, has been pushing her way back into the scene in recent weeks, as her new tell-all book, Here’s The Deal, hits the shelves, making waves among the American public and sending her old boss’s knickers into a twist.
In her new memoir, Kellyanne touches heavily on the idea of a female US president, as the first woman to have led a US presidential campaign to victory during her time as Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager — ironically enough, a victory over a female presidential candidate.
Conway writes that she believes this nation is ready for a female president: “just not this one,” referencing Clinton, who won the popular vote by a landslide over Trump in 2016. On the heels of her book’s release on Tuesday, the former Trump administration aide gave an interview to Business Insider, in which she said she could envision “any number” of Republican women leading this nation from the Oval Office.
“I think you have to look at Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, you have to look at Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee,” Conway told the publication. “There are any number of Republican senators, governors — maybe a businesswoman here or there, who knows.”
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“I can tell you one person it’s not going to be is Kamala Harris,” she added, ensuring that she didn’t miss an opportunity to hit out at the current Vice President.
Conway had honed her expertise in female voting patterns through her polling company before she even joined Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and took a deep look at the issues women voters reportedly cared about in her 2010 book, “What Women Really Want.”
“It is a tremendous sacrifice of privacy, of time, of energy, of money,” she said on the topic of women seeing a White House run. “I think the considerations set for women are always different, whether everybody wants to admit it and acknowledge it or not.”
Conway complains of the personal sacrifices she made through her time in the Trump administration all throughout her book — including the hit her marriage and children took due to her career. Conway touches on her decision to leave the Trump White House a few months ahead of the 2020 election to spend more time with her children. This was around the same time her daughter Claudia began speaking out publicly.
Kellyanne claims, though, that she and Trump remain close, allegedly speaking just last Tuesday; though, Trump’s recent remarks would beg to differ.
The publication asked Conway if she believed Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, had a political future, to which Kellyanne answered, “If she wants.”
“Ivanka is very talented, brilliant woman who has succeeded at everything she has ever tried,” she said, referencing the former First Daughter’s clothing line and her work at the Trump Organization, as well as a senior advisor in her father’s presidential administration.
“She is a naturally talented, very kind, and focused professional who sets out to do a task and gets it done”
“There is a calculus that every man and woman must make,” Conway said. “Does the risk outweigh the rewards? Is the opportunity cost too great? Is there too much of a personal sacrifice involved? And I think, professionally speaking, women often think about that in a different way and come up with a different set of considerations than do men.”
I’m here to tell you now, Ivanka Trump will set foot back in the White House over our dead bodies.
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