{"id":79534,"date":"2025-12-23T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79534\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:13:18","slug":"trump-critic-george-conway-takes-steps-to-run-for-new-york-city-congressional-seat-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79534\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump critic George Conway takes steps to run for New York City congressional seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 George Conway, a former conservative lawyer who has become one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most outspoken critics, is taking steps toward a run for Congress in an open New York City seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conway filed paperwork Monday to run as a Democrat in New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District, though he has not made an official announcement and his campaign did not respond to a request for comment. If he enters the race, Conway would be the latest high-profile contender in an increasingly crowded primary to succeed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jerry-nadler-congress-new-york-779e361dc5d13a007cd96ab6a3bb1f27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:retiring Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">retiring Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler<\/a> in the Manhattan-based district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conway initially supported Trump early in his first term. At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kellyanne-conway-george-trump-divorce-b45c7a81e6379059a1bb361217e00bba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he was married to pollster and strategist;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he was married to pollster and strategist<\/a> Kellyanne Conway, who served as a senior presidential adviser in the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">George Conway later emerged as one of the president\u2019s fiercest critics, condemning Trump&#8217;s actions on social media and cable news with an intensity that often mirrored his wife\u2019s public defense of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conway later helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. The Conways announced their divorce in early 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John F. Kennedy\u2019s grandson <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jack-schlossberg-house-new-york-jerry-nadler-6c924e46e00fa2ba7df903921f92091b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jack Schlossberg announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jack Schlossberg announced<\/a> in November that he was seeking to succeed Nadler. Micah Lasher, a former Nadler aide and current New York state lawmaker, has also entered the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district stretches from Union Square to the northern edge of Central Park, encompassing the wealthy Upper East Side and Upper West Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 George Conway, a former conservative lawyer who has become one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39529,153,38959,4097,38848,9,24,21994,56,63,65,64,39528],"class_list":{"0":"post-79534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-conservative-lawyer","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-george-conway","11":"tag-jerry-nadler","12":"tag-kellyanne-conway","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-yorks-12th-congressional-district","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news","20":"tag-outspoken-critics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79534","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=79534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}