TikTok star Claudia Conway talks navigating political disagreements with mom Kellyanne Conway
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- Claudia Conway posted a TikTok showing her and her mom, Kellyanne Conway, going to vote together.
- The two have famously disagreed on politics. Kellyanne Conway was Trump's 2016 campaign manager.
- Claudia Conway told BI there's "absolutely no universe" in which she'd vote for Trump.
Claudia Conway, 20, cast her first vote in a presidential election on Tuesday alongside her mother, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. The two have famously disagreed on politics, but Claudia Conway shared their trip to the polls on TikTok nonetheless.
"There is absolutely no universe or world where I would cast a vote for Donald Trump and be OK with it and live with myself afterwards," Claudia Conway, who describes herself as a "left-of-center independent," told Business Insider on election night.
In the TikTok video, which was viewed over 237,000 times as of Wednesday morning, Kellyanne Conway said they were going to "cancel out each other's votes."
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"While I'm not happy with who she voted for or her voting choices, they're her choice," Claudia Conway said of her mother's politics. "Just as every American who has the right to vote has that choice, and that choice is a constitutional right that they have and they can exercise however they please."
Claudia Conway told BI that casting her vote for Vice President Kamala Harris was "pretty emotional."
"It was really meaningful to me," she said. "As somebody who grew up around politics and grew up watching so many presidential campaigns, from the time I was literally born, I think it was just such a full circle moment for me to go into the polls on Election Day to cast my ballot."
A TikTok star with over 1.5 million followers, Claudia Conway is a sophomore political science major at a university she declined to name, citing a request from the school. She has also worked with HeadCount and other nonprofit organizations to register and mobilize Gen Z voters.
"Everybody believes in something different," she said of navigating political differences. "I draw the line at hatred; I draw the line at misogyny, racism, homophobia, et cetera, the whole nine. But I think it's so important to sit down with somebody who disagrees with you and talk about why you disagree."
Former President Donald Trump defeated Harris in the 2024 election, winning the "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to surpass the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch a second term.
Representatives for Kellyanne Conway did not immediately respond to a request for comment.