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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on January 19, 2023, 10:25:20 pm
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January 19, 2023 5:04pm EST
Kellyanne Conway claims Haley, Kushner were trying to boot Pence as vice president
Biden chose a female running-mate for the sake of choosing a woman, with lackluster results, she suggested
By Charles Creitz | Fox News
Kellyanne Conway, former White House counselor to then-President Donald Trump, told Fox News Radio she seconded claims from Trump-era official Mike Pompeo that former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley was trying to replace Mike Pence on the re-election ticket.
On "The Brian Kilmeade Show," the host asked Conway about the claim purportedly made in Pompeo's forthcoming book.
Kilmeade reported Haley "was scheming" with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner to replace Pence ahead of the 2020 election.
"I sure do. That is true that there were people trying to get rid of Mike Pence off the ticket beginning in, like, 2018 or so," Conway said, calling the move a "fool's errand" in part because Pence brought key political credentials among Evangelicals and women to the Trump ticket.
"I do just wish that Amb. Haley had been more strong and more public, more resolute and more public, in just saying, 'Please don't talk about that. We have so much work to do here at the U.N.,' where she was the ambassador for less than two years — and I wish she had just said that," Conway said.
Conway recounted telling Trump that replacing Pence would be a terrible idea, calling Kushner a "political novice" whose purported consideration revealed stark naïveté.
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