George Conway, a longtime critic of President Trump, filed paperwork Monday to run for Congress as a Democrat.
The co-founder of The Lincoln Project, an organization of ostensible Republicans dedicated to opposing the 45th and 47th president, will explore representing New York’s 12th Congressional District, a seat based in Manhattan and currently held by outgoing Rep. Jerrold Nadler.
Conway will join a field of colorful Democratic contenders that includes JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg, March for Our Lives organizer Cameron Kasky, state Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher, and Councilmember Erik Bottcher.
The 62-year-old Conway, a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, was married for 22 years to Kellyanne, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager who went on to become counselor to the president during the Republican’s first term.
The couple announced their divorce in March 2023, putting an end to years of speculation that accompanied George Conway’s increasingly strident social media criticism of Trump and Kellyanne’s equally impassioned defenses.
George Conway himself had been considered for the solicitor general post in the first Trump administration, but ultimately withdrew his name. The job went to Noel Francisco.
In her 2022 memoir, Kellyanne Conway described her husband as a “Trump-loving, MAGA-cap-wearing” diehard who turned his back on her and their four children over her White House gig.
She recounted one blowup over the July 4 weekend in 2019, during which George told her: “You have ruined yourself and you have embarrassed this family.”
“I’ve embarrassed this family?” Kellyanne said she responded. “You abandoned me for Twitter and she’s not even hot.”
