Former President Donald Trump is “biting the bit” to announce his third presidential bid, his former adviser and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway says. But she advised him to wait.
“My advice to the President in private is my advice to him in public: “If you want to announce, wait right after the midterms,” she told CBS News Katherine Herridge. in interview on Friday.
Asked if she thought Trump would announce he was running, Conway replied: “He would like to do this already”She said she spent time with in former president this week and she told Herridge that should he run”I will be a part of It.”
“This nomination belongs to President Trump if he wants it, and very few will get in in way of but it’s a very personal choice. for him,” said Conway.
However, Conway understands that even if Trump runs”there will be others who run “It won’t be uncontested.”
She told him to look for Rep. Liz Cheney, Vice Chair of The House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 will announce its own run for presidency, although “it’s not even clear she can win re-election in Wyoming”. Cheney currently appears to be trailing Trump-backed archrival Harriet Hageman recent poll revealed that she lost by 22 points.
Conway predicts that “tens of people”will run if Trump refuses another presidential campaign and “very, very few people works” if he decides to enter race. One of the most outstanding possible the challenger is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Conway offers him this advice: “I would say ‘be an incredible guy.’term governor, t. best two-term governor of Florida in modern times if not ever”, and then he can run for president before he turns 50.”
She called former Vice President Mike Pence, whom she also spend time with this week’s wild card.”
“It’s a boy who was right there with President Trump. it’s not over on in best terms”, she said, adding that for four years sang “from the same song leaf”, “president and vice president who complemented each other’s styles, but were of one mind on substance”.
While Pence is still touting the policies of the Trump administration, in understated way he says that two “may differ on focus.” He hinted this week that Trump’s constant focus on the 2020 elections are irrelevant. “Elections are connected with future”, — said Pence at the conference in Washington.
Conway also foresaw the possible consequences of hearing on 6 January on Trump. Of course it will be people who “enraged” and will vote against him, she said, but the hearings might also make it a little of martyr”. As voters, she said, “we protest and preach in groups, but we vote as individuals, “and we’re pretty selfish when we do that.”
A truism she landed on in 2016 she brought up again it was the voters vote depending on what influences them, and not just which offends them.
But how for Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021 Conway says she doesn’t sure what did he do” for those 187 minutes when his supporters took over the Capitol before he called on stop them.
Trump often talked directly with his dozens of millions of social media followers. “I do wish he’s done it before,” Conway said.
She remembered that on On January 6, 2021, she called the White House. Conway had left her work as presidential adviser a few months earlier spend more time with her family.
“I put call to the White House with a request to be sure to speak with people and do more”, – she said. – And I’m glad that he finally did it and told them to go home and go in world.”
Asked if she succeeded in contacting him, Conway explained how it was she who reached Trump that day.
“I would normally call the president on one of his mobile phones or usually through the switch, so it’s safe call. I knew the switchboard would take – it would take too long because they are doing their job,” Conway said.
Instead: “I called my mobile of someone i knew would be right next the president. I didn’t even have this cell phone in my telephone. I had to call my people who worked with to me in my office” for number, she said.
“I made in call. This man said, “Could you please like talk to the president? I said, “No, I wouldn’t like talk to the president. I would like tell him people get out of there me too call him later. I told with him,” Conway recalled, “later on or maybe early next day.”
She said she knew her message was given to Trump, “and I wasn’t alone.” Other also won on the president to act. “Add my name to the chorus of people who no doubt running in there it burns up phone lines say, “Please get people out of there.'”
Exactly who spoke to Trump during that period is still not entirely known. Internal White House records dated January 6, 2021, which were addressed over to the committee for the selection of the House of Representatives show a gap in Trump phone logs of Seven hours and 37 minutesincluding the period when the Capitol was stormed, previously reported by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of CBS News. year.
