George Conway, a Trump critic and the ex-husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, is running for Congress.
George Conway filed paperwork on Dec. 22 to run as a Democrat in New York’s 12th Congressional District and succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who announced in September that he is not running for reelection.
Nadler cited former President Joe Biden’s choice to serve one term in his decision.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler told The New York Times.
News of George Conway eying a congressional run came to light last month when The New York Times reported he had hired a Democratic pollster. At a private event, he acknowledged that running as a Democrat “will put some people off” but he would be a “wingman” to lawyers in Congress such as Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). Goldman is facing a primary challenge from the left.
“This is the time for a lawyer who has never been in politics to go into politics,” George Conway said at the event. “This is lawyering now.”
When it comes to the Trump administration, he said, “We need to do things to make sure there is accountability. We need to undo the damage that he has done to the Justice Department. And then we have to create new safeguards that are going to make the Watergate safeguards look like child’s play.”
George Conway was offered a position in the first Trump administration but declined.
In 2019, he wrote that Trump was unfit for office.
“You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, and you don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump—particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House,” he wrote in an article for The Atlantic.
The Epoch Times reached out to the White House for comment on George Conway running for Congress but did not hear back by publication time.
Other Democrats running for the seat include March for Our Lives cofounder Cameron Kasky, state Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher, and Jack Schlossberg, who is President John F. Kennedy’s only grandson.
