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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, and it was a lot of money, the kind I’ll probably never see again,” Conway continued. “And I thought about it.”
Miller, who’s married to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, asked Conway what “the biggest paycheck you turned down” was.
“Oh boy,” Conway said. “Eight figures to buy my company at the time, which, I don’t think it was worth anything near that.”
But Conway said people saw her role in securing Trump’s victory as reflective of a certain insight she had that others lacked.
“I’m not a lobbyist. They weren’t buying that. They weren’t really buying access to President Trump because I wouldn’t do that,” Conway said. “They just were, ‘Wow, it’s a whole new world, and new people are in charge, and new thinking has taken hold, and they know something about the country that everyone else missed.’”
Conway said she has no regrets about her decision to join the president in Washington.
“And that’s OK, you know, I’ve never regretted it a single day because I loved my job in the White House and I loved working for candidate Trump and then President Trump.”
