Trump critic, George Conway, attends an lawsuit for the radical Principles First disconnected tract of the RNC connected time 3 of the normal astatine Pabst Best Place connected July 17, 2024.
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George Conway, who was erstwhile joined to a erstwhile advisor to the president earlier becoming a salient anti-Trump voice, announced connected Tuesday that helium is moving for a U.S. House spot successful New York City, investigating whether helium tin crook his beardown societal media pursuing into votes successful a crowded Democratic primary.
Conway — who worked for years successful New York City arsenic an lawyer but has much precocious been surviving successful Bethesda, Maryland — said helium was spurred to tally for Congress aft a speech with a person astir her vexation with immoderate Democrats' determination to ballot to extremity past year's authorities shutdown.
Conway didn't privation to situation his congressman successful Maryland, Rep. Jamie Raskin, who helium said helium loves, truthful the person suggested helium alternatively look astatine a spot successful Manhattan that was soon to beryllium vacant pursuing the status of Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Conway said helium looked it up connected Wikipedia, and realized it was his aged stomping grounds.
"It was like, huh, it's an unfastened seat. This isn't crazy. I should deliberation astir this," helium said successful an interview.
He relocated backmost to Manhattan a fewer weeks ago, helium said.
Conway joins a flood of Democrats looking to instrumentality implicit Nadler's seat. Among the candidates are Nadler protégé and authorities lawmaker Micah Lasher, schoolhouse shooting subsister and advocator Cameron Kasky and Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy.
In a run motorboat video, Conway, 62, positioned himself arsenic a seasoned Trump foe whose extended acquisition arsenic an lawyer would let him to proceed his yearslong combat against the president from Congress.
"This is nary mean time. And I volition not beryllium an mean subordinate of Congress," helium said.
Conway, a erstwhile Republican who helped recovered the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, said that helium doesn't privation to beryllium a vocation person but felt that "this is simply a infinitesimal wherever we request radical who tin combat Trump the mode helium needs to beryllium battled."
He supported Trump's 2016 statesmanlike tally and had been joined to Kellyanne Conway, a pollster and strategist who became elder statesmanlike advisor successful the archetypal Trump White House arsenic good arsenic was 1 of Trump's fiercest defenders.
As Trump's archetypal word went on, George Conway began to knock Trump with an aggressiveness that rivaled his then-wife's ardent enactment of the president, drafting bonzer attraction to their relationship's diverging governmental positions.
At 1 point, Trump fired back, calling George Conway "a chromatic acold LOSER & hubby from hell!"
The Conways announced their divorcement successful 2023, penning successful a connection that their matrimony had included "many blessed years."
The territory Conway is hoping to correspond is considered solidly Democratic, consisting of Midtown Manhattan and the tony Upper East and Upper West sides.
Nadler, 78, past twelvemonth said helium would not tally for reelection, with the longtime fixture of New York's legislature delegation calling for generational alteration successful Congress. His planned exit has led to a flood of Democratic candidates emerging to instrumentality implicit his seat.
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