Kellyanne Conway

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Kellyanne Conway in February 2017

Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway (born Fitzpatrick, born January 20, 1967 in Camden , New Jersey ) is an American lawyer and pollster . She became known as a Republican campaign strategist. In the 2016 presidential election in the United States , she was first on Ted Cruz's team , then she became Donald Trump's campaign manager . She is the first woman in US history to lead a successful presidential campaign. In December 2016, Trump appointed her as his advisor (" Counselor to the President "). In August 2020, she announced her resignation at the end of the month. Before joining Trump, Conway was CEO and CEO of the polling company, The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend, which she founded .

origin

Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick was born on January 20, 1967 in Camden, New Jersey to Diane (née DiNatale) and John Fitzpatrick. Her father was of Irish descent and owned a small logistics company, her mother, who was of Italian descent, worked as a bank clerk. The parents divorced when she was three years old.

She was raised by her mother, grandmother and two unmarried aunts in Waterford Township, New Jersey, and graduated from St. Joseph High School in Hammonton in 1985 . Her upbringing was Catholic .

Education

Conway graduated from Trinity College, Washington, DC (now Trinity Washington University ) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a magna cum laude rating . She was also added to the Phi-Beta-Kappa Association. In 1992 she graduated from George Washington University's Law School with a Juris Doctor with honors degree .

Career

After graduating from college, Conway worked as assistant to Judge Richard A. Levie at the District of Columbia Supreme Court . She also worked as an adjunct professor in the law school of George Washington University for four years . She later worked in opinion polls for the Wirthlin Group , which is close to the Republicans, and for the conservative pollster Frank Luntz .

In 1995 she went freelance and founded The Polling Company, a market research company . With WomanTrend, a division of this company, she got involved with women as well as with brands and companies such as Vaseline , American Express , Hasbro , ABC News , Major League Baseball and the Ladies' Home Journal .

In addition to collecting and marketing survey results, she has appeared on numerous television channels with political commentary, including CNN , Fox News and Fox Business. She participated as a conversation partner on political programs such as Good Morning America , Real Time with Bill Maher , Meet the Press and Hannity . In 2012 she worked for Republican Todd Akin .

Kellyanne Conway in February 2015

In August 2015, Conway became head of the Super PAC for presidential candidate Ted Cruz , which was funded by hedge fund manager Robert Mercer . After Donald Trump secured the nomination as a candidate, the committee for the Make America Number 1 PAC (informally often Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC) was renamed and geared towards supporting Trump.

On July 1, 2016, Trump hired Conway as a female voter advisor. He had already employed a woman, Katrina Pierson, as a spokesperson for his election campaign since November 2015 . On August 17, 2016, Conway became Trump's senior campaign manager. Since his victory, she is considered the first woman in America to successfully lead a presidential campaign. After Donald Trump took office, Conway was appointed as an advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States .

She justified her resignation during the election campaign for the 2020 presidential election in August 2020 by wanting to have more time for her family. At the same time, her husband, Trump opponent George Conway, withdrew from a Republican initiative against Trump. The couple's 15-year-old daughter had previously criticized the mother's planned appearance at the Republican Party conference on Twitter. She wrote of selfishness and that her mother had seen her children suffer for years.

criticism

"Alternative facts"

In January 2017 Conway explained in the show Meet the Press in the context of the discussion to the audience at Trump's inauguration , what you are talking Chuck Todd as untruth ( "falsehood") denote had only " alternative facts have been" ( "alternative facts") , pointed out by press officer Sean Spicer . For that she was heavily criticized. The conservative magazine American Thinker, on the other hand, took it under protection, since the expression alternative facts is common in law. The expression is also common in other contexts, for example in connection with the parable of the blind and the elephant . On the other hand, it was reported in an article in the British Guardian that a search for this term in several legal databases had been unsuccessful.

Fictional terrorist attack "Bowling Green Massacre"

On February 2, 2017, Conway, in an interview with Chris Matthews on news channel MSNBC, justified Trump's Executive Order 13769 , which banned people from seven Muslim countries in North Africa and the Middle East from entering the United States. Bowling Green Massacre ”, which Conway said was carried out in 2011 by two Iraqis. In fact, it didn't happen at all. Two Iraqis, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan, were arrested in Bowling Green in 2011 and sentenced to 40 years and life imprisonment in 2013 for “extensive terrorist activities against US soldiers in Iraq”. These activities consisted of an attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaeda in Iraq, which would then be used against US soldiers. However, they neither carried out nor planned a terrorist attack in Bowling Green. It also acted during this process a sting operation the FBI .

The interview led to strong criticism. For example, Twitter recorded around 363,000 tweets with the hashtag “Bowling Green Massacre”. Conway said the morning after the interview that she had made a slip of the tongue. She said she should have talked about [Bowling Green] "terrorists" and "plot". In fact, Conway used the phrase “massacre” in two other interviews.

Commercial advertising

In February 2017, Conway again drew public criticism after she asked in an interview with Fox News to buy products from the clothing line of Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump : “Go on, buy Ivanka's stuff. […] I'm now advertising for free: Buy it all today, you'll find it on the Internet. ”Critics described Conway's behavior as an unethical amalgamation of commercial interests and political power or as a textbook example of abuse of a government function. Press secretary Sean Spicer said Conway had "been given advice" about it.

Others

The two moderators of the MSNBC show Morning Joe announced in mid-February 2017 that Conway would no longer be invited to their show in the future. In support of this, moderator Brzezinski said that every time she saw Conway on television, something was postponed, inappropriate or wrong.

Political positions

Conway sees himself as a Generation X conservative.

Conway refuses abortion. In 1996 she said: “We are for life. The fetus defeated us. We grew up with ultrasound images. We know what life is, when we see it "in 2017 she appeared as a speaker at the. March for Life on a protest against abortion and the Roe-v.-Wade - decision of the Supreme Court.

In 2014, she and others published a memorandum for the Amnesty- affiliated group FWD.us , in which she advocated options for the naturalization of illegal immigrants in the USA.

Private

Conway is married to attorney George T. Conway III and has four children. Her husband is considered a bitter critic of Donald Trump and questioned his mental state several times. Trump, however, referred to him as a "husband from hell".

Fonts

  • with Celinda C. Lake, Catherine Whitney: What Women Really Want. How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live . Free Press / Simon & Schuster , New York 2005, ISBN 0-7432-7382-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kellyanne Conway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Wright: Kellyanne Conway lands top WH job in Trump administration. CNN , December 22, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kellyanne Conway leaves the White House. In: Der Spiegel . August 24, 2020.
  3. ^ The Polling Company . She resigned from the Chair on January 20, 2017.
  4. ^ A b Trump strategist Kellyanne Conway has deep roots in South Jersey . In: Press of Atlantic City , October 17, 2016. “Marie DiNatale and grandmother Antoinette DiNatale in a brick rancher just off the White Horse Pike in the working-class Atco section of Waterford Township in Camden County. She attended St. Joseph's High School, just 10 miles east down the pike in Hammonton. " 
  5. ↑ Trump campaign manager: Obama was born in US . In: CNN , September 9, 2016. 
  6. ↑ Ronald Kessler: GOP Strategist: McCain Will Win . Newsmax . September 22, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  7. ^ GOP Strategist: McCain Will Win . Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Meet the NJ native who's running Donald Trump's campaign . In: NJ.com , September 26, 2016. 
  9. ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/trinity-v.-conway/article/2006910
  10. ↑ Who Is Kellyanne Conway? Trump Aide Turns Down White House Press Secretary Post . In: International Business Times , December 13, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Evan Osnos: Kellyanne Conway's Political Machinations . The New Yorker. October 17, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ Kellyanne Conway, NNDB, http://www.nndb.com/people/204/000357130/
  13. ^ The Polling Company: Kellyanne Conway biography . pollingcompany.com. 2016. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016. Retrieved on February 11, 2017.
  14. ↑ David Daley: Woman Of The Right . In: Hartford Courant , March 27, 1999. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2017. 
  15. ↑ foxnews.com: Kellyanne Conway Becomes First Woman to Run GOP Presidential Campaign; Nets Yawn ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Thorsten Denkler: Kellyanne Conway's daughter: "My mother's job ruined my life". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 24, 2020.
  17. ↑ NBC News: Conway: Press Secretary Gave 'Alternative Facts'. Retrieved January 23, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Blog: 'Alternative facts': A common legal term. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .
  19. ^ Even rightwing sites call out Trump administration over 'alternative facts' . In: The Guardian , January 23, 2017. 
  20. ↑ a b Joe Coscarelli: Kellyanne Conway Admits 'Bowling Green Massacre' Error , February 3, 2017 article on nytimes.com, accessed February 3, 2017.
  21. ↑ Trump adviser cites non-existent 'massacre' defending ban , February 3, 2017 article on edition.cnn.com, accessed February 3, 2017.
  22. ↑ Kellyanne Conway invents Bowling Green Massacre , on spiegel.de, accessed on February 3, 2017.
  23. ^ Conway cites bowling green massacre that never happened to defend travel ban , on washingtonpost.com, accessed February 3, 2017.
  24. ↑ Trump advisor speaks of a "massacre" by refugees that never happened , on welt.de, accessed on February 3, 2017.
  25. ^ Former Iraqi Terrorists Living in Kentucky Sentenced for Terrorist Activities , justice.gov, accessed February 3, 2017.
  26. ↑ stern.de: Trump advisor invents massacre to defend entry ban
  27. ↑ In Bowling Green 'Massacre,' FBI Agents Foiled an FBI Terror Plot , posted by Elizabeth Nolan Brown on February 3, 2017 on reason.com.
  28. ↑ Here's what actually happened in Bowling Green / , CNN message dated February 3, 2017, accessed February 7, 2017.
  29. ↑ Kellyanne Conway says her Bowling Green interview won praise - before the 'haters'. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .
  30. ↑ Conway Massaker Fake News , on tagesschau.de, accessed on February 3, 2017, version in the Internet Archive .
  31. ↑ Samantha Schmidt and Lindsey Bever: "Kellyanne Conway cites 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened to defend travel ban" Washington Post, February 3, 2017
  32. ↑ FAZ.net February 7, 2017: The President adds. Trump accuses media of covering up terrorist attacks
  33. ↑ washingtonpost.com February 6, 2017: Kellyanne Conway's 'Bowling Green massacre' wasn't a slip of the tongue. She has said it before.
  34. ^ "Go buy Ivanka's stuff [...] I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody; you can find it online. " Kellyanne Conway Promotes Ivanka Trump Brand, Raising Ethics Concerns , New York Times, February 9, 2017, accessed February 10, 2017.
  35. ↑ Trump advisor advertises his daughter , Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 10, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2017.
  36. ↑ Carolin Gasteiger: Controversial Trump adviser. US talk show blacklisted Kellyanne Conway , article from February 16, 2017 on sueddeutsche.de
  37. ↑ GEN X FILES . Hoover Institution . October 31, 1997.
  38. ^ A b Elinor Burkett: In the Land of Conservative Women . September 1996. "We're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it." Pro-Life is the name and slogan of anti-abortion in the United States. The fetus beat us is probably a reference to the publication of the same name by Candace Crandall, in which she diagnoses the decline of the pro-choice movement and ironically attributes to it the finding that the fetus won the battle for abortion.
  39. ^ Eugene Scott & Sara Murray: Pence, Conway cheer on March for Life , CNN. January 27, 2017. 
  40. ↑ Manu Raju: New Trump campaign chief once made case to legalize undocumented immigrants , CNN. 17th August 2016. 
  41. ↑ Kellyanne Conway's husband is Trump pick for justice department post - report. In: theguardian.com. March 18, 2017, accessed May 19, 2017 .
  42. ↑ Philipp Löpfe: Husband of the presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway: Trump has broken the law. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. November 9, 2019, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  43. ↑ Heike Buchter: Trumps Cinderella In: Die Zeit from January 26, 2017
  44. ↑ NZZ.ch June 14, 2019: Trump's press spokeswoman Sarah Sanders leaves the White House
  45. ↑ George Conway Says Trump's Poor Mental Health Would Get Him Fired From All Other Jobs. In: neewsweek.com , June 9, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Conway, Kellyanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fitzpatrick, Kellyanne Elizabeth (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican campaign manager, strategist, and pollster
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Camden , New Jersey