{"id":63483,"date":"2017-01-16T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63483"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T00:15:44","slug":"now-heres-a-woman-who-really-shattered-the-glass-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63483","title":{"rendered":"Now here’s a woman who really shattered the glass ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Reveals How Faith In Jesus Led To Huge Success<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Just weeks after\u00a0Donald John Trump was elected 45th president of the United States\u00a0of America, his\u00a0campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway speaks out about the\u00a0real\u00a0reason\u00a0why\u00a0he won.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In a landslide election, Donald J. Trump shocked liberals and republicans alike when he defeated Hillary Clinton in a historic, unprecedented win. And to say that people were astonished at Donald Trump\u2019s victory\u00a0would be the understatement of the century.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But behind Donald Trump\u2019s victory, stood\u00a0one woman<\/em>. So\u00a0who is this unique lady\u00a0responsible for helping Trump secure the highest office in the land? Who is Kellyanne Conway?<\/b><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Throughout his campaign, liberals tried to portray Trump as a he-man-woman-hater (if you don\u2019t recall the term from Little Rascals, please disregard\u00a0and keep reading.) <\/em>But\u00a0it is simply incomprehensible to think that a man \u201cwith no respect\u00a0for women\u201d would\u00a0hire one.\u00a0It\u2019s a fact that the media has certainly\u00a0overlooked and attempted to bury.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the\u00a0biggest and most critical \u201cjob opportunity\u201d of his life, Donald J. Trump entrusted his political campaign\u2013 and ultimately, his fate\u2013 \u00a0to a woman. And now\u00a0that she\u2019s\u00a0been appointed\u00a0counselor to the president, Conway\u00a0will be the highest-ranking woman<\/a> in the White House.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When asked how she felt about being the first woman to \u201cbreak the glass ceiling,\u201d Conway\u00a0responded<\/a>, \u201cI want everybody to remember, that it was Donald J. Trump who elevated a woman to the highest position in his campaign, much like he has done in the Trump Corporation for a number of decades\u2013 it is he who gave women responsibilities.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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She traveled with Trump throughout his campaign in its last months and advised him, as well as appeared frequently on TV to speak on his behalf.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway considers herself blessed to be given the opportunity. She shared<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m not a big gender-identity person, and I wasn\u2019t hired for my gender, but it\u2019s .\u2009.\u2009. a pretty cool thing to say to my three daughters and my son. Many women work really hard and never get their shot. I feel blessed to have gotten my shot.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I must admit that after learning a bit more about this unique woman, my admiration for Mrs. Kellyanne Conway has only grown all the more. It\u2019s no wonder why\u00a0she\u2019s the first female campaign manager in the history of America to win a presidential campaign.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As\u00a0a Republican campaign manager, strategist, and pollster, Conway is a the queen of wearing many hats\u2013 and she wears them quite well.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aside from her influence\u00a0in politics, Conway\u00a0is also the president and CEO of The Polling Company Inc.\/Woman Trend. Her company\u00a0has\u00a0consulted and conducted\u00a0market research for\u00a0some of the leading companies in America such as Major League Baseball, The Federalist Society, Martha Stewart, American Express, and ABC News.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Additionally, Kellyanne\u00a0has been a guest and political commentator on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business,\u00a0Real Time with Bill Maher, Meet the Press,\u00a0Hannity, and more.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Today, Kellyanne Conway is quite successful. But unlike most\u00a0prominent\u00a0women in politics, she wasn\u2019t\u00a0born into a successful family, and her childhood was almost anything but glamorous.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kellyanne Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Conway was born on\u00a0January 20, 1967, in an impoverished little neighborhood\u00a0just outside of Camden, New Jersey.\u00a0Conway\u2019s parents led a very\u00a0simple lifestyle; her Irish father owned a small trucking company while\u00a0her Italian mother worked at a bank.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When she was only three years old, Conway\u2019s parents divorced. And from an early age, Kellyanne witnessed first-hand\u00a0what hard working women\u00a0looked like. Young Conway\u00a0was raised by her single mother,\u00a0Diane Fitzpatrick, as well as her grandmother and two aunts\u2013 who all\u00a0worked tirelessly to help make ends meet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway traces her conservative world-view\u00a0to growing up in a household, \u201cwhere family and faith and self-reliance were premier. We were not encouraged or allowed to complain or talk about what we didn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It wasn\u2019t long before Kellyanne acquired a job herself. For eight summers throughout\u00a0her schooling years, the bright-eyed and blonde young\u00a0Kellyanne\u00a0worked grueling hours of manual labor as\u00a0a blueberry picker on a farm in Hammonton, New Jersey. And to this day,\u00a0she credits her fighter spirit and strong work ethic to that farm.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway shared<\/a>, \u201cThe faster you went, the more money you\u2019d make. Everything I learned about life and business started on that farm.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At age 16 Kellyanne\u00a0won the New Jersey Blueberry Princess pageant<\/a>. And at 20, her hard work\u00a0and determination\u00a0helped her win\u00a0the World Champion Blueberry Packing competition\u2013 which is no easy feat!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But Kellyanne was not only a beautiful hard-worker, she was also quite brilliant. After graduating from\u00a0St. Joseph High School in 1985, Conway graduated magna cum laude from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., earning a degree in political science.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway went on to study\u00a0at Oxford University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a prestigious honors society, and later earned a law degree with honors from George Washington University Law Center. (She now describes herself as a \u201cfully recovered\u201d attorney<\/a>.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Early on\u00a0in her career, Conway\u00a0appeared on TV frequently<\/a>\u00a0throughout the \u201990s\u00a0to take a stand against\u00a0the Clintons. Since then, the brilliant and outspoken republican has provided commentary on more than 1,500 TV shows.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Throughout her schooling, Kellyanne\u00a0planned to\u00a0establish herself as a lawyer, but God had\u00a0other plans for her life. The half-Irish, half-Italian young lawyer soon found her professional niche in 1988, while working for Ronald Reagan\u2019s pollster, Dick Wirthlin, in the summer before she graduated from George Washington University Law School. Her first assignment<\/a> was to demystify the gender voting gap: \u201cHow could the GOP attract more women?\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kellyanne had discovered her purpose. Seven years after that life-changing assignment, Conway founded The Polling Company\/WomanTrend<\/a>, a consulting firm that specializes in market research. A decade later, she co-authored a book titled \u201cWhat Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live.<\/em>\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Raised by four women, ironically, Conway\u00a0chose to work in what she calls a man\u2019s world \u2014 especially as a Republican political\u00a0pollster.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway told\u00a0CNN<\/a>, \u201cRepublican politics can sometimes feel like you\u2019re walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.\u201d She recalled a potential client \u2014 a man \u2014 asking how she\u2019d balance kids and work. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018I just hope you ask all the male consultants. Are you going to give up your weekly golf game and your mistresses?\u2019 Because they seem really, really busy too,’\u201d recalled<\/a> Conway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But in that \u201cworld full of men,\u201d Kellyanne shines.\u00a0For decades, she\u00a0has provided a steadfast, fearless, and persistent conservative voice for republicans across our nation. Conway is a long-time pro-life activist, Second Amendment supporter, she stands with Israel, and she boldly defends the Biblical definition of marriage every opportunity she gets.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, talked to The Stream<\/a> about Conway. \u201cKellyanne was already a star in her own capacity before she led Donald Trump\u2019s campaign victory,\u201d\u00a0Hawkins said. \u201cHer broad knowledge of key issues that matter to conservatives was well-established, especially in regards to abortion, conscience rights and religious freedom. Her presence in the White House should be not only a source of comfort to those of us who have worked with Kellyanne for years, but also a source of pride and encouragement. Kellyanne is one of us, a respected leader in the pro-life movement who helped guide organizations with key messaging and wisdom many times over. President-Elect Trump is wise to keep Kellyanne by his side as he takes the oath of the 45th<\/sup>\u00a0President of the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Chair of the Select Panel on Infant Lives and member of the Trump transition team, also added<\/a>, \u201cKellyanne has worked\u00a0worked tirelessly throughout her career as an advocate for the pro-life movement. She understands that a majority of Americans support common sense regulations for the abortion industry and were deeply troubled by what a Hillary Clinton presidency might mean for legislation, like the Hyde Amendment, a four-decades-old measure to prevent taxpayer funding for abortion-on-demand that, thanks to the 2016 Democratic platform, no longer enjoys bipartisan support. Kellyanne is one of the most talented strategists in politics, and I am grateful for her leadership throughout this campaign in communicating President-elect Trump\u2019s pro-life message. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I look forward to working with the new administration in our continued efforts to protect women and the unborn.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway met Trump in 2006, when she was living in one of his buildings, according to the Washington Post<\/a>. She even served on the condo board of the Trump World Tower in Manhattan. Conway recalled<\/a>\u00a0being surprised to find how involved Trump\u00a0was\u2013 even showing up to meetings to hear residents\u2019 concerns. Over the following couple of years,\u00a0Trump would call her to say he\u2019d seen her on TV and ask her opinion\u00a0about varying issues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In March 2015, Trump asked Conway to help strategize for his presidential bid\u00a0and even offered her a job on the\u00a0campaign, but she declined. Over a year later,\u00a0on\u00a0Aug. 17, 2016, Conway accepted the role as his campaign manager \u2014 a decision that would alter the course of their lives, and history, forever.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But there\u2019s much more to Kellyanne than just politics. Conway is an outspoken woman of faith, devoted wife, and proud mother of four.<\/strong> Kellyanne\u2019s husband is George T. Conway III, who as a young lawyer played a historic\u2014and largely hidden\u2014role in the impeachment<\/a> of Bill Clinton.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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While many believe in luck, Kellyanne believes meeting her hubby George\u00a0was by Divine appointment. According to The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>, their romance began after\u00a0Conway saw a picture of Kellyanne on the cover of a Washington society magazine and asked a mutual friend to set them up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The lovebirds\u00a0met the following year, and tied the knot\u00a0in 2001, when Kellyanne was 37-years-old. Together, the Conways have four children \u2014 including twins\u2013 between the ages of six and eleven.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Conway recalled<\/a> the joys of being a pregnant middle-aged woman,\u201d I had my first children [twins] at thirty-seven, then I had two daughters in my forties, forty-one and almost forty-three,\u201d she said. \u201cThey say there are no eggs left in your forties, but there were two rolling around in there somewhere. I was surprised both times, like, \u2018Oh! O.K. Not a stomach ache.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the middle of her interview with\u00a0CNN<\/a><\/em>, Kellyanne\u00a0paused to take\u00a0time to listen to her 12-year-old-daughter, Claudia, play piano, asked her twin brother, George, about the birthday party they just returned from, and\u00a0took some time to help her younger daughters, Charlotte and Vanessa,\u00a0with their hair.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Conways have made their home in Alpine, New Jersey and\u00a0have no desire to be in the limelight. In fact, they\u2019re rarely seen in public\u2013 unless there\u2019s a baseball game nearby.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kellyanne Conway\u2019s\u00a0life boasts of what God can do when one woman\u00a0is willing work hard, serve her family, honor her\u00a0country, and strive to make a difference.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cKellyanne Conway has been a trusted advisor and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory. She is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message. I am pleased that she will be part of my senior team in the West Wing,\u201d Trump said in a statement<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Running a successful political campaign is no easy feat.\u00a0And there\u2019s no doubt that Kellyanne Conway is the kind of woman every young girl can aspire to be. It\u2019s a pitiful shame that the media isn\u2019t\u00a0giving her the recognition that she so deserves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u00a0want all the little girls out there to know<\/a> that the lessons are very simple. Be kind your entire life because all the kindness I showed to other people came back to me manifold in this campaign. And secondly and most importantly, if you work hard and you get your shot one day, you too will shine. You have to believe in yourself, don\u2019t listen to the critics, don\u2019t listen to the naysayers. You know who you are. You\u2019re beautiful, you\u2019re smart, you can do it. That\u2019s my message to all those little girls dreaming out there.\u201d \u2013 Kellyanne Conway\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kellyanne Conway\u2019s steadfast character\u00a0and undeniable love for her\u00a0family\u00a0sets her\u00a0apart, while her\u00a0faith and trust in the Lord is indeed a beautiful sight\u00a0to behold.\u00a0Thank you Kellyanne, for your unashamed faith and unwavering principles.\u00a0May God Bless our new Leaders. And May God Bless America! <\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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