Jack Schlossberg<\/a>, whose celebrity status is both traditional (he\u2019s a Kennedy heir) and modern (he\u2019s an influencer). There\u2019s Alex Bores, whose name recognition soared after big tech came after him. There\u2019s Micah Lasher, whose reputation came the old-school political way. And then there\u2019s Mr. Conway, who has hitched his attention wagon to a politician more adept at occupying mental real estate than perhaps anyone in the country.<\/p>\nMr. Conway argues that his singular focus on the president is what\u2019s most important. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a race about A.I., I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a race about any particular issue,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a moral crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically the job has to be to address the corruption,\u201d he continued. \u201cAs a lawyer, as someone who has conducted investigations and as someone who has gone toe to toe with this man and is not afraid of him, I think I\u2019m this person for this moment, and God bless everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps trying to broaden his appeal, Mr. Conway has run a campaign oddly focused on his dog. Every other week, Mr. Conway hosts a canine campaign event. When he showed up at his happy hour, with his corgi in tow, he told the group assembled: \u201cIt\u2019s an honor you took time to see Clyde.\u201d<\/p>\n
And on a recent stroll around Central Park, Mr. Conway got affectionate gazes from several pedestrians who didn\u2019t seem to recognize the candidate, but were clearly enamored of his pet.<\/p>\n
There were also a few pedestrians who clocked Mr. Conway. \u201cI hope you can be in Congress!\u201d one power walker shouted.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou live in the district?\u201d Mr. Conway asked, and was met with an apologetic \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Conway believes that the issues young people are concerned about on the left, like affordability, can\u2019t really be solved until someone takes seriously the rot at the heart of American politics. Recently a voter came up to him at Starbucks, he said, and asked if he was going to be like John Fetterman, arriving in Congress and immediately pivoting to a more conservative posture. He denied this. But even at his own happy hour, some voters pushed back on his singular Trump focus.<\/p>\n
Chris Bastian, 67, a retired transit engineer, had come to the event to tell Mr. Conway how much he disagreed with the effort of trying to impeach the president. \u201cIn one of the first primary debates, you said your primary goal is to impeach Trump,\u201d Mr. Bastian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes!\u201d Mr. Conway replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s a terrible idea,\u201d Mr. Bastian said, explaining that in his view Congress should focus on legislative ambitions beyond the president. \u201cI think we can muddle through.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the mistake we\u2019re always making with Trump,\u201d Mr. Conway said. \u201cThinking we can muddle through.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sometimes, it isn\u2019t clear whether Mr. Conway can really imagine winning. When asked whether he is enjoying running, he paused and said he hasn\u2019t been doing it as much recently. Has he enjoyed running for office, though? He apologized for misinterpreting the question. He was planning, he explained, to train for a half marathon after the campaign ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he walked through Central Park, George T. Conway III \u2014 the former conservative lawyer who became a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43109,651,1452,416,89546,859,43101,46937,9,24,55,54,56,1875,1069],"class_list":["post-254539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-conway","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-j","tag-elections","tag-george-t-iii","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-lincoln-project","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-primaries-and-caucuses","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}