Former White House Counselor tests covid positive

Jubilee News Desk

A day after US president Donald Trump and wife Melania tested positive the former White House Counselor Conway also tweeted about her testing covid positive on Saturday.

“My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine. I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians,” Kellyanne Conway tweeted. Kellyanne Conway, a former counselor to U.S. President Donald Trump, on Friday said she had tested positive for COVID-19.

Conway is an American pollster, political consultant and pundit who served as counsellor to the president in the administration of Donald Trump from 2017 to 2020. She was previously Trump’s campaign manager, having been appointed in August 2016, Conway is the first woman to have run a successful US presidential campaign.

She has previously held roles as campaign manager and strategist in the Republican Party, and was formerly president and CEO of the Polling Company / WomanTrend.

Conway lived in Trump World Tower from 2001 to 2008 and conducted private polls for Trump in late 2013 when he was considering running for governor of New York. In the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, Conway initially endorsed Ted Cruz and chaired a pro-Cruz political action committee.

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After Cruz withdrew from the race, Trump appointed Conway as a senior advisor and later campaign manager. On December 22, 2016, Trump announced that Conway would join his administration as counsellor to the president.

On November 29, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Conway would oversee White House efforts to combat the opioid overdose epidemic.