{"id":17341,"date":"2026-01-06T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/george-conway-enters-crowded-nyc-democratic-house-primary-with-singular-focus-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:01:41","slug":"george-conway-enters-crowded-nyc-democratic-house-primary-with-singular-focus-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/george-conway-enters-crowded-nyc-democratic-house-primary-with-singular-focus-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"George Conway enters crowded NYC Democratic House primary with singular focus \u2014 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Conway wants to impeach President Donald Trump. He may soon get a vote to do so.<\/p>\n

The attorney, pundit and staunch anti-Trump critic formally launched his bid for a Manhattan House seat today and is framing his run around an all-encompassing effort to oppose the president.<\/p>\n

The rollout includes a 2-minute video<\/a> that features images of Jan. 6, a woman being led away by immigration enforcement officers and photos of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Vladimir Putin. In the video, Conway calls Trump \u201cmendacious,\u201d \u201ccorrupt\u201d and \u201ccriminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pledges to \u201cnot be an ordinary member of Congress\u201d given the extraordinary political moment.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Blue Light News, he went even further, saying that Trump\u2019s actions in Venezuela \u2014 including the seizure of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro to face criminal charges in the U.S. \u2014 are among the impeachable crimes he\u2019s committed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe completely disregarded the War Powers Act,\u201d Conway said. \u201cHe\u2019s abusing his power as commander-in-chief. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Maduro is a bad guy and he\u2019s probably guilty of all the crimes he\u2019s been charged with in the Southern District of New York. But President Trump is doing this without consultation to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not return a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Conway is a first-time candidate who only recently registered as a Democrat ahead of filing to run in the deep blue district being vacated by Rep. Jerrold Nadler. A former Republican, Conway left the GOP in protest during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

He’ll face a large field of Democratic contenders, including state Assemblymember Alex Borres, New York City Council Member Erik Bottcher, former Nadler aide and state Assemblymember Micah Lasher and Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg.<\/p>\n

The seat is unlikely to be competitive in the November election, making the winner of the Democratic primary Nadler\u2019s likely successor<\/p>\n

Conway\u2019s positioned himself as a forceful Trump antagonist \u2014 the kind of aggressive posture that\u2019s popular with Democrats eager for a sharp-edged approach to take on the president. Conway and his wife Kellyanne, a former Trump adviser, announced in 2023 they would divorce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His House campaign will test the limits of how much Democratic voters want to express their disdain for the president. Many candidates this year are placing a focus on affordability \u2014 a buzzy political issue that Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode to success in their campaigns.<\/p>\n

Yet Conway believes voters\u2019 concerns all flow from one source: Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe politics of this aren\u2019t divided in my view between talking about Trump and holding Trump accountable and then all the kitchen table issues,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re not separate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conway will still have to persuade Democratic primary voters, though. His recent conversion to the Democratic Party will likely come under scrutiny. But he insisted his ties to the district are strong \u2014 adding that his kids were born in the city and that he now lives there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made my life here,\u201d he said. \u201cThis district has been the center of my life since I got out of law school.\u201d<\/p>\n

A version of this article first appeared in Blue Light News’s New York Playbook. Want to receive the newsletter every weekday?\u00a0<\/i>Subscribe to New York Playbook.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Conway wants to impeach President Donald Trump. He may soon get a vote to do so. The attorney, pundit and staunch anti-Trump critic formally launched his bid for a Manhattan House seat today and is framing his run around an all-encompassing effort to oppose the president. The rollout includes a 2-minute video that features […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}