Kellyanne Conway To Anti-Trumpers: ‘My Guy Is A Winner’

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager-turned senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on December 8 that she has been receiving death threats from Hillary Clinton supporters who criticize her for allegedly catering to the so-called “alt-right.”

“Anytime I respond, anytime I defend myself against these … allegations that are now leading to death threats … I’m seen as ungracious,” Conway told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during an interview, according to ABC News. “Why are we sore winners? I’m not a sore winner. I’m a winner. My guy is a winner. He’s the next president of the United States.”

The majority of those threats, Conway said, are coming from those who say she and the Trump campaign gave a strong voice to white supremacy and tapped into hate to win the vote. But that isn’t true, Conway countered.

“The fact is that [the Trump] campaign ran a race where we reached into those working-class voters who felt they were the forgotten man or forgotten woman, they were the base of our support,” she added. “All [the Hillary Clinton campaign] needed to do was have a compelling, sticky, aspirational message for the American people…. all I heard was ‘We’re not Donald Trump. That’s not a message.”

Conway also called out Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s former communications director, who wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post on December 7 following a verbal altercation between the pair over whether or not Conway and the Trump team won thanks to the white-nationalist movement.

“Ask Jen Palmieri that because she’s writing an op-ed, somebody else in The Washington Post today has a scathing headline about me which is not true but did lead to some death threats today and that’ll be on their doorstep,” Conway added.

In that article, Palmieri said that the president-elect and his team divided the nation and challenged them to unite it.

“Trump provided a platform by retweeting white nationalists — giving their views an audience of millions,” Palmieri wrote in the Post piece. “Views previously relegated to the darkest corners of the Internet also had a platform … Many of [Clinton’s] supporters were sincerely frightened by his campaign’s embrace of the alt-right.”

Sources: ABC News, Washington Post / Photo Credit: Kellyanne Conway/Twitter