{"id":75381,"date":"2026-06-26T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/watch-kellyanne-conway-insists-socialist-primary-victories-dont-reflect-american-values-nationwide\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:54:59","slug":"watch-kellyanne-conway-insists-socialist-primary-victories-dont-reflect-american-values-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/watch-kellyanne-conway-insists-socialist-primary-victories-dont-reflect-american-values-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Kellyanne Conway insists socialist primary victories don&#8217;t reflect American values nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump White House counselor and Fox News contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/c\/kellyanne-conway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kellyanne Conway<\/a> said Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primary results do not signal a broader political shift, arguing the victories reflect the politics of only a handful of districts.<\/p>\n<p>She told Fox News Digital that candidates she characterized as &#8220;anti-America&#8221; may find success in &#8220;very curated, specific districts&#8221; but are unlikely to win over the country on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after a slate of progressive and socialist candidates scored high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/socialist-wins-pile-up-after-gops-brutal-2025-off-year-election-losses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victories<\/a> in Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primaries. Those wins fueled renewed debate over whether the Democratic Party is shifting further to the left ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ny-socialist-surge-could-push-dem-voters-defect-gop-governor-candidate-predicts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NY SOCIALIST SURGE COULD PUSH DEM VOTERS TO DEFECT, GOP GOVERNOR CANDIDATE PREDICTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asked whether she expects more progressive candidates to win elections, Conway pointed to what she described as &#8220;a lot of anti-American, anti-Israel candidates winning&#8221; in Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p>She claims their appeal to some blocs of voters would remain limited and jurisdictional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that plays everywhere,&#8221; Conway said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not aligned with the values of this country. It&#8217;ll happen in very curated, specific districts, but it won&#8217;t happen everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mamdani-backed-socialist-candidate-storms-live-interview-confronted-old-social-media-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST CANDIDATE STORMS OUT OF LIVE INTERVIEW WHEN CONFRONTED WITH OLD SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conway made the remarks while attending a Capitol Hill ceremony commemorating the nation&#8217;s upcoming 250th anniversary, where organizers completed a time capsule to be preserved for the next 250 years.<\/p>\n<p>She said she hopes &#8220;all Americans are very excited&#8221; to celebrate the country&#8217;s milestone before weighing in on the Democratic primary results.<\/p>\n<p>Conway also cited a recent poll on patriotism, saying she was &#8220;very disturbed&#8221; in results that found 90% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a> say they are extremely or very proud to be American, compared to only 29% of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Conway said the results reinforced her belief that the Democratic Party&#8217;s activist wing is increasingly out of step with most Americans, arguing that patriotism remains a defining issue for many voters heading into the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether she was surprised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-jerry-nadlers-chosen-successor-wins-crowded-nyc-primary-big-name-rivals-fall-short\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary loss<\/a> of her ex-husband, anti-Trump conservative attorney George Conway, the former top White House aide replied, &#8220;Not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Conway, a prominent critic of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, was running to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., but lost his bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump White House counselor and Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday&#8217;s Democratic primary results do not signal a broader political shift, arguing the victories reflect the politics of only a handful of districts. She told Fox News Digital that candidates she characterized as &#8220;anti-America&#8221; may find success in &#8220;very curated, specific districts&#8221; but &#8230; <a title=\"WATCH: Kellyanne Conway insists socialist primary victories don&#8217;t reflect American values nationwide\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/watch-kellyanne-conway-insists-socialist-primary-victories-dont-reflect-american-values-nationwide\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WATCH: Kellyanne Conway insists socialist primary victories don&#8217;t reflect American values nationwide\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}