Politics
NEW: Longtime MSNBC Analyst Launches Congressional Bid
Longtime MSNBC analyst and vehemently anti-Trump attorney George Conway announced Tuesday that he will be jumping into the crowded primary field to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District.
Conway timed his announcement with the five-year anniversary of the January 6 Capitol protest, which he hyperbolically portrayed as some sort of medieval battle. The video cuts in and out with a handful of cherry-picked videos from the day, alongside images of illegal aliens being apprehended by federal immigration authorities.
“We find it hard to believe, but it’s real. It’s happening on the streets of New York City everyday,” Conway narrates against a backdrop of Nazi flags, ICE raids, President Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin and more.
He then builds his central pitch around impeaching President Donald Trump. “We have a corrupt president, a mendacious president, a criminal president whose masked agents are disappearing people from our streets. Who’s breaking international law, and he’s running our federal government like a mob protection racket.”
Conway went on to point to his status as a longtime anti-Trump critic on left-wing cable news networks like CNN and MSNBC, as well as his work on the highly controversial E. Jean Carroll case, as the basis of his bonafide anti-Trump credentials. “I know how to fight these people. They are corrupt, amoral people. They will stop at nothing to rig the system for themselves,” Conway ranted while images of senior Trump officials cut in and out.
Finally, Conway announced that he is running for congress to “take the fight” directly to President Trump, promising that he will not be an “ordinary member.”
Conway, a frequent MSNBC contributor who was first referred to as a “conservative lawyer” when he began appearing on the network in 2019, will be joining a crowded primary field to replace Nadler.
Other notable candidates include Assembly Member Micah Lasher, Nadler’s expected endorsee who is seen as his heir apparent, Assembly Member Alex Bores, and Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F. Kennedy. Additional contenders include gun control activist Cameron Kasky — a Parkland shooting survivor who famously told Marco Rubio that he can’t help but see him “shooting my classmates” — civil rights lawyer Laura Dunn, journalist Jami Floyd, and several others.
Nadler, one of the most senior members of the U.S. House, announced his retirement late last year. He currently represents the Empire State’s 12th Congressional District, an overwhelmingly blue district with a lean of D+33 on the Cook Partisan Voting Index.
