Anti-Trump donor George Conway broke down in a recent podcast interview recounting how he wept after writing a nearly $1 million dollar check to the Biden re-election campaign — money he knew his children would never see.
Conway, the ex-husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, donated the huge amount in April 2024 as a key spokesperson for a Democratic fundraising push behind then-President Biden’s struggling reelection campaign.
Biden dropped out of the race just months later and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to President Donald Trump in a landslide.
In the interview, Conway described the moment he signed away a million dollars he’d plan to leave to his children.
“I was actually driving out to my friend John Gardner’s house out in Maryland and I was thinking about, well, how much money should I give to the Biden campaign for this thing where I’m gonna be the headline spokesperson and asking other people to give, you know, and I thought I’d give, you know, a lot of money, but a reasonable amount of money,” Conway said.
“And then I started thinking about it and it’s like, you know, I mean, this is supposed to, it’s money that my kids would otherwise inherit and I started thinking about that.”
It made him break down into tears.
“So what, what am I gonna give? And then I just thought about it, well, what do I want my kids to inherit?” Conway continued. “And I, I literally was in tears. I pulled over to the side of the road and I, I was in tears thinking about this and it’s like, I want my kids, it makes me misty-eyed even today.”
“I want my kids to inherit a democracy. It’s more important than money and, and that decided, well, f**k that, I’m, I’m gonna give the legal maximum, which was like $929,600 and, you know, I, I just, it’s just, it’s just more important. It’s just more important.”
Conway is currently running for the House seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York — despite being from Maryland.
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