Longtime conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway, who successfully ran President Trump’s 2016 campaign, recalled fielding numerous high-paying offers before she accepted a job in the first Trump administration as senior counselor to the president. In an interview on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” Conway said prospective buyers and clients flocked to her polling firm after she shepherded Trump’s campaign to victory, in what Conway acknowledged came as a surprise to some political observers.
“I will say this: I was also staring at a goldmine of life-changing money because Trump won. People weren’t expecting it,” Conway said on the podcast. “I said, ‘We told you so.’ We were on the TV saying, ‘We’re going to win Michigan, Wisconsin’ — like, roll the tape.” “And people were throwing money at me,