{"id":1487786,"date":"2022-05-22T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487786"},"modified":"2022-05-22T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T00:45:13","slug":"should-i-get-out-kellyanne-conway-says-trump-considered-dropping-out-of-2016-race-after-access-hollywood-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/should-i-get-out-kellyanne-conway-says-trump-considered-dropping-out-of-2016-race-after-access-hollywood-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Should I Get Out?\u2019: Kellyanne Conway Says Trump Considered Dropping Out Of 2016 Race After \u2018Access Hollywood\u2019 Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshould-i-get-out-kellyanne-conway-says-trump-considered-dropping-out-of-2016-race-after-access-hollywood-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487786&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-632405246.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump briefly considered dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, according to the new book authored by his then-campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.<\/p>\n<p>Conway\u2019s book, \u201cHere\u2019s the Deal,\u201d is set for a Tuesday release \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/kellyanne-conway-book-trump-toyed-with-quitting-after-access-hollywood-pussy-tape?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4\">according to The Daily Beast<\/a>, Trump held a private meeting with her after the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape leaked to the press.<\/p>\n<p>According to Conway, on the evening of October 8, 2016 \u2014 just hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/billy-bush-blasts-nbc-for-firing-him-over-trump-access-hollywood-tape-claims-he-was-sacrificed-for-political-gain\/\">tape went public<\/a> \u2014 she and Trump met on the 24th floor of Trump Tower to discuss how he should respond to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump had seen reports that the GOP \u2018could force him off the ticket or hold a vote to expel him\u2019 amid the fury over his \u2018disgusting\u2019 comments, captured on video a decade earlier, Conway wrote,\u201d according to The Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould I get out?\u201d Trump reportedly asked Conway, despite telling The Wall Street Journal earlier in the day that there was \u201czero chance I\u2019ll quit.\u00a0I never, ever give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conway said that she wondered at the time whether he was really unsure of his next steps or whether he was simply testing her \u2014 but that she never really considered him quitting the race to be a viable option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou actually can\u2019t unless you want to forfeit and throw the whole d*** thing to Hillary,\u201d Conway says she told Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean, I can\u2019t?\u201d Trump asked, according to the book \u2014 and Conway says she pointed out the fact that early voting had already begun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you don\u2019t like to lose, but I also know you don\u2019t like to quit,\u201d Conway pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill I lose? Will we lose? Can we still win?\u201d Conway wrote that Trump still seemed unsure but that she said there was still a path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>According to the book, in addition to reassuring Trump that victory was still possible despite the barrage of negative press that was still incoming, Conway was forthright with her boss about what she thought of the taped remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Conway said that she told Trump to his face that his comments to then \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d host Billy Bush were \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201creprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite what she said in private, Conway continued to defend Trump in public interviews, telling CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that \u201csexual assault\u201d was not the right phrase to use to describe Trump\u2019s comments \u2014 which did not mention any specific woman or incident.<\/p>\n<p>When Bash pushed back, Conway asked why no one wanted to interview the women who had accused former President Bill Clinton of rape.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump briefly considered dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, according to the new book authored by his then-campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.Conway\u2019s book, \u201cHere\u2019s the Deal,\u201d is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1487797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}