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Watch as Claudia Conway Spars (and WINS) With Mom Kellyanne as She Calls Out Trump’s Disgusting Lies on LIVE TV

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It’s no secret that Trump’s former advice queen Kellyanne Conway has clashed with her family in the past over her support of her old boss. Most notably, she and her husband, George Conway, called it quits after a tumultuous Trump first term that saw her invent the phrase “alternative facts” and saw him join the never-Trumper group The Lincoln Project.

But Kellyanne also had private battles with her daughter Claudia, who was the talk of the town for a while and now acts mostly as an online influencer with a famous name.

Trading on her name isn’t the only thing Claudia has going for her, though.

The young lady has been proven to be much smarter — and more like her dad — than anyone previously gave her credit for. She’s well-spoken and certainly well-informed.

That’s not to say she doesn’t get along with Kellyanne at all, though. She appeared with her mom on a recent episode of Fox Nation, where the two seemed amicable. Until the conversation turned to Trump, that is.

During the half-hour piece, the 19-year-old detailed her positions on reproductive rights and the platform that Democrats are running on in 2024. That meant that she did her best to call out Trump’s lies about just what that platform is.

“Ninety-three percent of all abortions happen in the first trimester, and the rest of them, most will then happen in the second trimester,” Claudia explained to her mother. “And a very, very small amount happen in the third trimester. And it’s about 97 percent of those abortions happen for the life of the mother or because of a miscarriage, or if the fetus will not be viable. So 93 percent of abortions are happening in the first trimester.”

That had to be hard for Kellyanne to sit and listen to. After all, these aren’t “alternative” facts, these are real ones that her daughter sat and schooled her on. And it certainly couldn’t have helped that Claudia kept speaking as a graphic came on the screen confirming everything she said, per the Centers for Disease Control.

But she went on: “And when we have our former president of the United States saying on national TV, on the biggest stage in the world, saying that doctors are executing babies after they’re born or in the ninth month, it’s not happening,” Claudia said. “This is not happening.”

Claudia’s exactly right. Trump has been circling the country at various rallies and spouting the same rhetoric over and over. Sometimes he goes as far as saying that it’s legal in six states for doctors to perform an abortion “after the baby’s born.”

He doesn’t explain that scientific impossibility, nor name the states that he’s referring to, but he still makes the claim to this day.

If that weren’t enough of a gut-wrenching wake-up call for Kellyanne, Claudia even detailed why, like her father, she planned to vote for Kamala Harris this year. We already knew she would be, since she appeared with her dad at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago back in August.

“I look at Kamala Harris and I don’t see a perfect person. I don’t see a perfect leader. But I do see change,” Claudia explained. “I do see moving forward, you know, and I’m not one for identity politics, but it would be nice to have a woman in the White House, you know, not just for the sake of having a woman.”

Apparently referring to Claudia’s social media bio, which says “Will probably be on your 2040 ballots,” Kellyanne asked her daughter, “What about you? Can we wait? Can we just have Trump win this time, and then we’ll wait for you or your sisters?”

It’s nice to see Kellyanne support her daughter no matter what her views are, but Claudia didn’t share her mother’s optimism that it would be an option if Trump were victorious in November.

“If Trump wins this time, I’m not sure that I will be in that position to walk into the White House,” she said.

Make no mistake: Claudia was raised a Republican. Even her father is still a Republican. But like George, Claudia can’t stand what Trump has done to the Republican Party.

The GOP’s shift to the far right has been in the works for a long time, and they’ve managed to shift the entire state of American politics to the right as they work toward their goals. Even during the Obama years, the top marginal tax rate was lower than it was under Reagan.

But Trump put the GOP’s radicalization into overdrive. Tea Party types became MAGA supporters, and racism, misogyny, and even violence have become their stock in trade.

Back in July, Claudia was plain about how she felt:

Even if you’re still a conservative, Claudia, welcome to the land of the sane.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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