Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Kellyanne Conway made history as the first woman to run a Republican campaign for president when she helped Donald Trump win in 2016—a far cry from her days packing blueberries at a farm in New Jersey. As many advisers fell in and out of Trump’s orbit during his presidency, Kellyanne remained a constant presence before leaving the White House in August 2020. She joined David to talk about being raised by four women in blue-collar New Jersey, her relationship with Trump, her disappointment with the Trump 2020 campaign, the difficulties of being a working mother, her predictions for Trump’s 2024 plans, and her memoir, “Here’s the Deal.”

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files,
0:12.5	with your host, David Axelrod.
0:15.9	Had a conversation last week with Kellyanne Conway, the veteran Republican pollster, served
0:23.8	as Councillor to President Trump and before that as his campaign manager.
0:28.3	He's on tour with her new memoir, A Book with a Biden-esque title, Here's the Deal.
0:33.2	And I sat down with her before an audience at the University Club of Chicago to ask her
0:37.1	exactly what the deal was.
0:39.0	Here's that conversation.
0:40.0	It's good to see you all.
0:50.4	I've been here before for these, but the room wasn't quite as crowded.
0:53.2	I don't know what's going on, Kellyanne.
0:55.0	Welcome to Chicago.
0:56.0	Yeah, I want to warn everybody if you came expecting a cable TV show to break out.
1:03.6	You may be disappointed.
1:04.9	I'd like you to have a conversation.
1:07.7	And I want to ask you, this book is so interesting.
1:13.6	Just your journey is so interesting.
1:15.5	And I want to focus a little bit on how you became who you are.
1:20.6	And your childhood, which was not a conventional childhood.
1:25.8	Talk about that.
1:26.8	Your dad left when you were quite young.
1:30.9	Talk about the experience of growing up in ATCO.
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