Kellyanne Conway leaving White House for family

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• President Donald Trump’s top adviser Kellyanne Conway announced on Sunday that she will be leaving the White House at the end of the month.
• Her husband, George Conway, also announced that he will be leaving the Lincoln Project.
• The couple both cited their family as the reason why they need to step away from their political duties.

President Donald Trump’s top counselor Kellyanne Conway announced on Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month.

Conway has served as Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 presidential election. She is known to be the first woman to successfully drive a White House bid. The president appointed her as his senior counselor since then.

“The past four years have allowed me blessings beyond compare as a part of history on Election Night 2016 and as Senior Counselor to the President,” Conway wrote on Twitter. “It’s been heady. It’s been humbling.”

She said she informed the president of her decision in the Oval Office. She added that her husband, an outspoken Trump critic, is “also making changes.”

George Conway also announced Sunday that he was taking a leave of absence from both Twitter and the Lincoln Project.

“We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids,” she wrote. “For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.”

The couple both cited a need to spend time with their children.

Conway is still lined up as a speaker at the Republican National Convention this week. George, a lawyer who renounced Trump after the 2016 campaign, had become a member of the Lincoln Project, an outside group of Republicans devoted to defeating Trump.

Conway also said she will help her children’s remote learning during the pandemic.

She was also known as the president’s robust defense in media appearances, at times delivering dizzying rebuttals while once extolling the virtues of “alternative facts” to support her case. Conway was also an informal adviser to the president’s reelection effort but resisted moving over to the campaign.

Source: AOL