Monday, February 18, 2019

Speaking of pollsters

Kellyanne Conway and her family moved into the Trump Tower [in 2008]. She was a member of the condo board, which is where she said she first met Trump. At the time, she was also running her own polling agency, The Polling Company. In 2013, she conducted private polling for Trump when he was thinking about running for Governor of New York.

Some of her past clients include Jack Kemp, Senator Fred Thompson, former VP Dan Quayle and former Congressman Mike Pence. She worked with Newt Gingrich twice.

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In 2015, she started working for Ben Carson and Ted Cruz. During that time, Cruz’s campaign paid $750,000 to Cambridge Analytica for “web service/donor modeling” and Carson paid it $220,000 for “data management service” and “web service.” Conway’s a former consultant for Cambridge Analytica.

She joined Trump’s campaign in July 2016. After Manafort resigned, she took his spot and became the first female campaign manager of a Republican presidential campaign. Bannon, then the VP of Cambridge Analytica, joined the campaign as its top advisor a month later.

After Trump’s election, Conway went on numerous mainstream media outlets to subvert facts and spread disinformation.

In February 2017, she referred more than once on national TV to the “Bowling Green Massacre” in Kentucky, as reasoning for the ban on Muslims entering the US. The massacre was made up. Last year, the Office of the Special Counsel said she violated the Hatch Act by stumping for Republican Roy Moore during interviews with Fox News and CNN.

At the [2017] American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) conference [...] Conway was voted Most Valuable Player of the Year. There were some members who disagreed with the selection, pointing out that Conway had lied to the press on numerous occasions which violated the group’s code.

In the end, the AAPC board determined it had found no evidence Conway had lied in a “substantial way” and that without her, Trump wouldn’t have been elected president.

  Medium
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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