Conway announced late Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of August, citing the need to spend more time with her children as they continue distance learning in the fall semester.
“For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mom,” Conway said in a statement on Sunday.
Her husband, George Conway III, also announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republican operatives working to deny the president a second term.
The couple’s public, Trump-oriented feud had provoked control of their marriage in recent years and put pressure on their four children – including their 15-year-old daughter Claudia, who had placed over her parents and criticized the president on social media.
“Kellyanne is missing. “America loves them,” Meadows said Monday. ‘We will definitely miss her here in the White House. But listen, this is all about making a priority for family. That’s what this president is about, and that’s what Kellyanne Conway is about. ”
Conway’s resignation means Trump will lose one of his longest-serving members at a particularly tumultuous moment during his presidency.
Less than three months into election day, he is facing an ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a raging U.S. economy and dire public questioning that is dragging him down on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden nationwide and in swinging states.
But Meadows on Monday rejected the suggestion that Conway had jumped ship as the president’s re-election prospects appeared increasingly desperate.
“That’s cynical, and anyone who knows Kellyanne Conway knows she’s never been fired from a fight,” he said. “And so to suggest that is just not based on the facts.”
Conway, who served as Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, is scheduled to speak Wednesday about the third night of the largely virtual Republican National Convention, based out of Charlotte, NC
