Long Before Trump, Kellyanne Conway Worked for Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant Extremists
When Donald Trump in August hired Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO and Kellyanne Conway as his campaign manager, many in the media quickly zeroed in on Bannon, noting that Breitbart News, the conservative website he ran, was a platform for white nationalists and anti-immigration and anti-Muslim fearmongering. But Conway—a pollster best known for helping GOP candidates appeal to women—has her own ties to anti-Muslim conspiracy theorists and nativist opponents of immigration.
After years in the political wilderness, extremist groups have gained new relevance, thanks to Trump's victory. But Conway, who is now a senior adviser to the president-elect and is likely to run an outside group to support Trump's agenda, has for years done work for some of these organizations, lending her polling expertise to their causes and helping them shape their messaging.
Following the Paris terrorist attacks in late 2015, then-candidate Trump announced his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States until US leaders "can figure out what is going on." To justify his proposal, he cited a flawed poll from June 2015 that portrayed American Muslims as increasingly radical. According to this poll, 51 percent of Muslims in the United States believe they should have the choice to be governed by Shariah law (Islamic religious law) instead of US laws, and nearly 20 percent believe "the use of violence in the United States is justified in order to make Shariah the law of the land in this country."
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