A mother and daughter reunion was only a motion away for Kellyanne Conway and Claudia Conway on Thursday. The 19-year-old TikTok influencer—and Kamala Harris voter—appeared on her Donald Trump supporting mom’s Fox Nation series Here’s the Deal with Kellyanne for an across the aisle talk about the presidential election, the political leanings of Gen-Z and their own images in the media.
“Claudia, people will ask you or ask me, ‘How can you disagree politically and love each other?’” the host asked her daughter at the top of their conversation, referring to the popular perception that their different political leanings have pushed them irrevocably apart.
“Everyone is always finding the things on which [they] disagree,” Conway continued. “Let’s find the things on which there is alignment or there is agreement where you can actually have a conversation. Do you think politics by its design means that we can’t?”
Watch a clip of the Conways’ mother-daughter moment below:
For her part, the younger Conway indicated that their relationship wasn’t bound to a “binary view” of the American political landscape. “I can look at you and love you even though you have a different political opinion than I do,” she said. “We can be humans at the end of the day.”
Conway also explained to her mother—who was a counselor for former President Trump during his administration—why she and so many other Gen-Z voters plan to cast their ballots for Harris.
“They look at Donald Trump and they look at Joe Biden and they see two older men who have been in this forever,” she noted. “I look at Kamala Harris and I don’t see a perfect person… [or] a perfect leader, but I do see change.”
Conway and her father George Conway made a show of their support for Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where they billed themselves as “MAGA’s most-hated.” (George Conway and Kellyanne Conway announced their divorce last year.)
While neither mother or daughter emerged from the conversation with their opinions changed, they also made it clear they won’t be losing each other’s numbers. “Love you, sweetheart,” Conway posted to her daughter on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the Fox Nation episode went live. “Thank you for joining. Insight and inspiration!”
