Regardless of who you voted for, we can all agree that President-Elect Trump’s former campaign advisor and appointed counselor Kellyanne Conway is a rock star in her own right. In just a few short months, she turned around a miserable, doomed-to-fail campaign for the United States’ most infamous misogynist and eventually won him the White House; a task many people from both sides of the aisle deemed impossible from the start. But other than that, the blonde hair, and the SNL skits where Kate McKinnon portrays her as Trump’s overworked b%$*h, this political lioness is extremely ambiguous to the general public.
1. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler and she was subsequently raised by her mother, grandmother, and two aunts.
So at least young Kellyanne didn’t need to be bossed around by men...
2. She’s a pageant queen.
At the age of 16, Conway won the New Jersey Blueberry Princess Pageant. Like you actually thought Trump would hire a woman with no pageant experience!
3. She’s pretty freaking smart.
Conway graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University, studied at Oxford University, was elected to the prestigious honors society Phi Beta Kappa, and holds a law degree with honors from George Washington University.
4. She’s married with four children.
To assume her position as Trump’s counselor, she had to uproot her kids from her native New Jersey to Washington, D.C.
5. In 1995, she founded The Polling Company.
The company also has a separate division called WomanTrend that is devoted to helping Republicans better appeal to female voters.
6. She is by no means inexperienced in the political sphere.
In fact, her resume is pretty impressive. Highlights include working for former VP Dan Quayle and VP-elect Mike Pence and serving as senior advisor on Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign.
7. In 2014, she co-authored a memo for pro-immigration group FWD.us.
The memo argued "most Americans don't believe deportation is a viable policy" and that we should instead take steps to legalize illegal immigrants. But I’m willing to put money on her recanting her position given her new boss.
8. She also co-authored the book What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live with Democratic strategist Celinda Lake.
Not only does this show that Conway is capable of crossing the aisle, but according to the book’s Amazon description: “Conway and Lake demonstrate how women are getting what they want and need by rejecting outdated traditions and expectations that no longer fit their reality.”
9. She ran a Ted Cruz Super PAC prior to conducting the Trump Train.
She made the largest personal donation ($5,400) to his campaign in 2015 and said some awfully critical things about Trump.
10. She is the first woman EVER to have successfully run a Republican Presidential Campaign.
Yes, EVER. But if you would rather believe that Olivia Pope is a real person, ignore everything I just said
