Kellyanne Conway swats away 'mean' question from the 17-year-old daughter of Mother Jones' David Corn

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[h=1]'You are using sexual assault to make news': Angry Kellyanne Conway swats away 'mean' question from high school student about how she could 'rationalize' working for Trump after harassment claims[/h]

• The 17-year-old daughter of Mother Jones' David Corn asked Kellyanne Conway to justify how she worked for a man accused of sexual misdeeds
• Conway was speaking about her boss Donald Trump's victory at a University of Virginia forum today in Washington, D.C.
• Conway pushed back upon hearing the question, telling the high school student she was using 'sexual assault to make news'
• She explained that voters looked at the infamous 'p****' tape and the allegations that followed and still cared more about jobs and security

By NIKKI SCHWAB, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:25, 30 November 2016 | UPDATED: 14:22, 1 December 2016

 

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Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was not so pleased when a high school student asked her to 'rationalize' working for Donald Trump amid sexual harassment claims in the aftermath of the 'Access Hollywood' tape.
Maaike Laanstra-Corn, the 17-year-old daughter of David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of left-leaning website Mother Jones, pointed out how Conway was the first female to run a Republican's presidential campaign and the female head of a polling company – and then dug in, asking the top Trump aide to defend her actions.
'For you to use sexual assault to make news here I think is unfortunate, but it also doesn't matter because Donald Trump said he'll be president of all Americans,' Conway quipped at the teenager, adding that Corn was 'trying to be personally mean about it.'

 

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Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway (left) appeared at an event today put on by Larry Sabato's (right) University of Virginia Center of Politics

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When Kellyanne Conway (left) was asked a question about defending Donald Trump's sexual assault accusations, Larry Sabato (right) said she didn't have to answer it

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The Associated Press;s Steve Peoples identified the student as 17-year-old Maaike Laanstra-Corn, the daughter of liberal writer David Corn, of Mother Jones

The audience seemed to be on the young woman's side, as they applauded after Corn unloaded her question.
'Lest we be confused about the politics of the audience,' Conway said.
The Associated Press' Steve Peoples, in tweets, first identified the questioner as Corn's daughter.

 

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David Corn's (left) daughter Maaike Laanstra-Corn (right) asked Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway to 'rationalize' how she, as a woman, worked for a man accused of sexual harassment

'They're young,' shrugged Larry Sabato, the head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, the organization sponsoring the program that was being held this morning in downtown D.C.
'So how's your millennial outreach going, Hillary?' Conway said with a knowing laugh, as the youth vote wasn't enough to propel the Democratic nominee into the White House.
While Conway said she was told by Sabato she didn't have to answer the question, she did anyway.
'So, what you just said was said probably tens of thousands of times,' Conway noted. 'During the campaign. On the internet. On TV incessantly. In paid advertising,' she said using punctuated pauses.
Conway pointed out that the Clinton camp used the 'anti-woman stuff' on Trump in their television ads and in direct mail advertising for the Democratic candidate.
'And you know how America's women answered?' Conway said. 'They gave the first ... female candidate, I don't know, what was it? Fifty-six percent.'



Exit polls, according to the Washington Post, put the figure at 54 percent.
'And Hillary Clinton had a gender gap from the beginning and her gender gap was among men and very few people outside of our campaign wanted to talk about it and it never got better,' Conway continued.
The pollster-turned-campaign manager suggested that women should have been 'marching on Pennsylvania Avenue or Fifth Avenue' declaring their support for the first female nominee.
But that didn't happen.


'She should have gotten 60-62 percent of the female vote and she did not and part of why she did not is, women tire of the same argument and the same thing that you're saying to me now,' Conway said.
The campaign manager, who's heavily involved in Trump's transition team, said she was glad people looked at the 'p****' tape and heard the women's complaints in the aftermath and came to a conclusion.
'You know what? That's an argument that will not create a single job in my community, not bring back a single of the 70,000 factories that have been closed, will not deter one member of ISIS from doing their bloodletting here or in Europe or anywhere else in the world,' Conway said.

 

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Well trained liberal BRAT by her Mother Jones parent.

 

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News Flash: No one was actually s e x ually assaulted.

 

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Conway rocks!