Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway has been reportedly selected as the new campaign manager for the Trump campaign. Kellyanne is one of my former students at GW Law where she also served as an adjunct professor. It is a huge responsibility and Trump supporters should be highly encouraged by her selection. She is smart, resourceful, and very disciplined. Just what the Trump campaign needs at this critical time. She also now have the distinction of being the first female to head a GOP campaign for president.
Like your humble host, Kellyanne is actually half Irish and half Italian with an Irish name. She is one of a long legacy of GW grads in politics on both the Democratic and Republican side as well as third parties. We are proud of the wide range of political activities and affiliations of our graduates. Kellyanne was the president and CEO of The Polling Company as well as a regular television commentator.
She received her B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College and her J.D. from George Washington University Law Center. She also is a former judicial clerk.
She is a Jersey native and has four children with her husband, George T. Conway III, a partner at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Unfortunately, George missed out on the GW law education but he seems to have been able to get by without it.
Congratulations Kellyanne!
I really like when Professor Turley so often puts personal politics aside, especially now when congratulating a former student on a position with a candidate he may not agree with.
Politics has descended to the level of the gutter, and speaking of politics can poison friendships nowadays. So happy to see this is not always the case.
Perhaps, if we all took this attitude of removing political goggles, the world would be a nicer place.
Doesn’t anyone care that Hillary’s last name is spelled “cLIEnton”? For all that she has done, it should be spelled “Criminal”. Trump’s descriptions of her are right on target.
Just curious. What happens if on election eve, nobody gets 270 electoral votes? I realize this probably won’t happen. But what if?
There are many people who have drawn the same conclusion as Darren. There will be more as this campaign really heats up.
Darren w/ an impressive, and a bit surprising, comment.
As Mike Appleton stated though the choices this time around are disappointing to many, he wrote in order to have well suited successors for the justices of the Supreme Court, the choice between the candidates was easy for him. I offer a different perspective.
With the overwhelming evidence of questions to Mrs. Clinton’s integrity and propensity for brokering and fostering corruption and, of course, the myriad of questionable practices relating to trading favors and influence in exchange for official acts to benefit seemingly anyone willing to make sizeable contributions to the Clinton Foundation, it is for me self-evident who not to vote for.
Hillary Clinton given her lack of integrity, lying, and conversion of public records to her possession with the benefit of editing these records should they be embarrassing to her, should eliminate her from any consideration during a background investigation; even for a job as basic as a records clerk for even a small police department or a HIPAA compliant medical facility. To consider such a person having these disqualifications for the presidency is completely and totally absurd.
As Mike correctly pointed out that a seventy year old man is unlikely to change his ways, it has been my observation that it’s equally correct that corrupt individuals also do not change in their ways. And, having someone such as this in a position means that the corruption instead of being limited to some small local agency will at the federal level metastasize deep into the web of government and our affairs internationally.
Because the DNC worked to disenfranchise one of its own candidates, in the case of Mr. Sanders, and instead actively promoted Hillary Clinton–a dubious candidate that will inevitably peddle influence–the party deserves to lose this election. By that same token if the Republicans have so alienated their base with the same old tired mantras, and through their own arrogance political elitism offered candidates that represented the status quo that the Republican voter now wishes to disavow, the result is predictably a Protest Candidate like Donald Trump just as Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger were in the past.
Returning to Mrs. Clinton, regardless of who she is, when a candidate is corrupted there are no redeeming qualities this candidate can bring to office. Corruption is one of, if not the largest, reasons for the inability of nations to provide benevolent governance to its people. We only need to look at various nations in the second and third world as examples. Not that the USA is to that level at the present anyone is folly to state that there is a political class in our country having evolved to control far too much of our society for us not to be vulnerable to such sleaze at the highest levels of office.
So in my view the choice in candidates is easy. It is whichever candidate is most likely to defeat Hillary Clinton.
But how ever way the election goes it still holds true that people get the politicians they deserve. And as long as they remain apathetic, uninterested, and unwilling to form a well researched effort to find candidates that truly represent their ideas and have the best individuals for these important positions these tainted or extreme candidates will be the only ones that will be given to them, whether they like it or not.
The rest of us, yes, will suffer some of these bad candidates despite our efforts to unseat them. But unlike those who blindly vote, we who are self-reliant and critical thinkers will manage to work out our lives and adapt regardless of which of the two is elected.
I predicted that the Republicans would nominate Jeb Bush.
When? About 2/3 of Jeb’s polled support evaporated in a matter of a few months in the 3d quarter of 2015. The same thing happened to Mike Huckabee at about the same time. Betwixt and between, Gov. Perry and Gov. Walker shut down their campaigns.
Nick S.:
You’re right. I predicted that the Republicans would nominate Jeb Bush. Whoops.
Steve Bannon is the head of the campaign. Conway is the manager. Trump is going full breitbart.
vinegart, not sure how claiming that a new campaign manager, a few months away from the election, will not change things for Trump, in either direction, is being toxic. Something about music be played during battle is nonsensical. Again, for those who believe that a new individual at the helm of the campaign is significant at this point–either a man or a woman–think again. Trump, himself, as of yesterday, in an interview, when directly and specifically questioned as to whether he would consider changing the direction of his campaign or modifying his tone and rhetoric, answered said question with an emphatic NO. He has no intention of doing so, stating that he would disappoint his supporters. In case you didn’t realize, that is not a condemnation of Trump. That isn’t a prediction that he has no chance of becoming President. It’s just stating that his campaign, despite some insignificant changes, will stay the course. Whether the course leads to victory or defeat is yet to be seen. The insignificance of a new campaign manager remains the same.
A correction: her BA is from Trinity Washington College, a quondam Catholic college in DC which nearly imploded and re-invented itself as an ‘urban’ women’s college around the time she graduated Very curious choice. I’m guessing she was a late bloomer academically. There’s some indication she grew up in New Jersey and it’s quite odd she attended a private college in DC of no special distinction rather than one of New Jersey’s state colleges. She did not attend Trinity College in Connecticut.
Her LinkedIn profile only lists the polling business she runs. It has no dates bar those appended to her degrees or a listing of employment history beyond that. Her company website says she founded the business in 1995. That would mean she clerked for a judge for a year and then spent a couple of years with other employers (supposedly Frank Luntz, among others). Funny, her company website lists it as located in Washington, but multiple sources identify her as living at several different addresses in New Jersey. Her company has a Better Business Bureau accreditation, FWIW. BBB says they have a ‘New York office’. LinkedIn lists the number of employees at no more than 10.
So, he hired a lapsed lawyer / market researcher whose business hit a plateau in its dimensions some time ago. Not sure what to make of that.
The additions of Kelly Anne, Roger Ailes and that Breitbart guy mean he is digging in. Mannafort’s Russian connections were getting too hot. Less than 6 weeks to early voting………
Trump has decided to put a woman out front, as his campaign manager, in an attempt to, perhaps, gain some traction with female voters.
In 40 years of paying attention to public affairs, I’ve never heard an ordinary person make remarks re the staff of a given candidate. I’ve seen media people and political junkies make occasional remarks, but almost no one else. The thing about media people and political junkies is that they’ve made up their mind and wont change it if anyone this side of Ted Bundy is selected for the campaign manager’s slot.
that the Trump campaign couldn’t be salvaged if they managed to prop up Lee Atwater.
He’s about six points behind. Your wish-fulfillment is showing.
Art Deco – there are two new polls showing Trump down by 1 or 2.
I have tried to find via Google the name of the “judge in Washington, DC” for whom Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway, age 49, clerked, and the length of time she served as a law clerk… without any success. Is her resumé truthful & accurate?
Given her age, it would have been in the pre-internet or proto-Internet era. You’ll find the judge in the period U.S. Government Manuals with little doubt, but you will not find her. She’d be a confidential employee with no one working under her and no responsibility bar to perform services for the judge. You’re not such a person listed in an official manual and likely not on a latter-day website. You might conceivably find a clerk who was an abiding employee of the judge, most likely in a directory because such law clerks are filters. You’ll also find the salient court apparatchicks.
MikeA, We have ~80 days to see if your certainty is warranted or wishful. You are a smart guy, but always struck me as increasingly insular. I doubt you predicted or even imagined Trump being the Rep nominee.
Bam Bam, sorry I misread your email. But the election isn’t over yet. And neither is Trump. Anything can happen during the next 90 days, so I remain positive about him. Being toxic doesn’t help. Why do you think the military uses uplifting music during battle? The last thing any commander wamts is conveying any sign of negativity before engaging the enemy. For this reason, polls should be outlawed because they always bias the outcome. And when it comes to elections, equal time should be reinstated for all candidates. We’re all quite sick of this crap about the mainstream media unfairly influencing elections in our country. If the mainstream media was against Hillary, she’d be lucky to have 10% support. So it speaks loudly for Trump when the media is against him and yet it’s a neck-and-neck race. The way I see it, the mainstream media effects affirmative action for some liberals.
Congratulations to Mrs. Conway.
Ms. Conway may be quite talented, but the truth is that the Trump campaign couldn’t be salvaged if they managed to prop up Lee Atwater.
I have previously expressed my unhappiness with the choices in this election, but the pro-Trump comments on this and many other threads on this site reflect a lot of whistling past the graveyard. And voting for third party candidates will accomplish nothing. For me, the most important consideration when I hit the voting booth this time around is the Supreme Court. That makes it an easy choice.
The simple fact is that Hillary Clinton will be the next President and Mr. Trump will be able to take that long vacation that he recently mentioned. Seventy year-old men do not change their personalities. All the Hillary haters need to purchase a return ticket to reality.