Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway said Never Trump political consultants never achieved success like she did.
During a Thursday interview on Fox News, Conway fired back at an attack ad released by The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans and independents co-founded by her husband, George Conway,
“Before I get a reaction on this, this is not about your husband, this is not about your marriage. This is about that group. It just so happens that George Conway wrote this op-ed today,” Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner began after reading an op-ed from her husband that was critical of President Trump. “What is the response to this? Because this group now is getting a lot of light and lifting from the president tweeting about them.”
Conway took issue with her husband being raised during the interview but slammed those in charge of the project as unsuccessful.
“It certainly is about my husband, or you would have quoted other people in the group, particularly all the other ones who are political consultants and never achieved what I achieved, which is success as a presidential campaign manager,” said Conway, before Harris clarified that another op-ed released by GOP strategist Rick Wilson was “too blue” to be read on the air.
“I can’t even say I’ve seen it. But to my point, they’ve all failed. They never succeeded the way I did as campaign manager, and they never got their candidate where my candidate got. He’s president of the United States.”
Harris then asked if the president may alienate moderates by bringing more attention to the ad entitled “Mourning in America,” an allusion to former President Ronald Reagan’s positive “Morning in America” slogan. “Do you chance losing some of the moderates by doing this? I mean, ignore them.”
Conway responded in the negative and asserted she ignores them and claimed the president “mostly” ignores them.
“Mostly he does, once in a while he doesn’t, but he also wanted to expose, I think, a number of the people in that group who act like they are so dignified and holier-than-thou than everyone, when nobody ever says what their track record is,” Conway continued. “They made tons of money in the campaigns — nothing close to what I made, much less — because we had the Trump campaign under-resourced, understaffed,” said Conway.
