{"id":91622,"date":"2026-01-06T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91622\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:30:10","slug":"massive-trump-critic-plans-run-for-congress-in-new-york-this-is-no-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/91622\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Trump critic plans run for Congress in New York: \u2018This is no ordinary time.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 George Conway, who was once married to a former adviser to the president before becoming a prominent anti-Trump voice, announced on Tuesday that he is running<\/a> for a U.S. House seat in New York City, testing whether he can turn his strong social media following into votes in a crowded Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

Conway \u2014 who worked for years in New York City as an attorney but has more recently been living in Bethesda, Maryland \u2014 said he was spurred to run for Congress after a conversation with a friend about her frustration with some Democrats\u2019 decision to vote<\/a> to end last year\u2019s government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Conway didn\u2019t want to challenge his congressman in Maryland, Rep. Jamie Raskin, who he said he loves, so the friend suggested he instead look at a seat in Manhattan that was soon to be vacant following the retirement of Rep. Jerry Nadler.<\/p>\n

Conway said he looked it up on Wikipedia, and realized it was his old stomping grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, huh, it\u2019s an open seat. This isn\u2019t crazy. I should think about this,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

He relocated back to Manhattan a few weeks ago, he said.<\/p>\n

Conway joins a flood of Democrats looking to take over Nadler\u2019s seat. Among the candidates are Nadler prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and state lawmaker Micah Lasher, school shooting survivor and advocate Cameron Kasky and Jack Schlossberg<\/a>, the grandson of John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

In a campaign launch video, Conway, 62, positioned himself as a seasoned Trump foe whose extensive experience as an attorney would allow him to continue his yearslong fight against the president from Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is no ordinary time. And I will not be an ordinary member of Congress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Conway, a former Republican who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project<\/a>, said that he doesn\u2019t want to be a career politician but felt that \u201cthis is a moment where we need people who can fight Trump the way he needs to be battled.\u201d<\/p>\n

He supported Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential run and had been married to Kellyanne Conway<\/a>, a pollster and strategist who became senior presidential adviser in the first Trump White House as well as was one of Trump\u2019s fiercest defenders.<\/p>\n

As Trump\u2019s first term went on, George Conway began to criticize Trump with an aggressiveness that rivaled his then-wife\u2019s ardent support of the president, drawing extraordinary attention to their relationship\u2019s diverging political positions.<\/p>\n

At one point, Trump fired back, calling George Conway \u201ca stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Conways announced their divorce in 2023, writing in a statement that their marriage had included \u201cmany happy years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district Conway is hoping to represent is considered solidly Democratic, consisting of Midtown Manhattan and the tony Upper East and Upper West sides.<\/p>\n

Nadler, 78, last year said he would not run for reelection, with the longtime fixture of New York\u2019s congressional delegation calling for generational change in Congress. His planned exit has led to a flood of Democratic candidates emerging to take over his seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 George Conway, who was once married to a former adviser to the president before becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-91622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91622","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=91622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}