Kellyanne Conway and her daughter Claudia appear to have put aside their long-running feud for election day, after a vlog by the young influencers showed the pair traveling arm-in-arm to the polling station to "cancel out" each other's votes.
Claudia, who has amassed 1.5 million followers on TikTok, emerged as a prominent anti-Trump figure in 2020 during her mother's tenure as the former president's Senior Counselor. Her online promotion of causes such as abortion access has led to several public disputes with her mother, who has remained a leading Trump surrogate throughout his 2024 presidential campaign.
On Tuesday, however, Claudia posted a "come vote with me" video to her TikTok channel, claudiamconway, which featured her mother.
"Everyone has been asking me: 'How do you feel, what's going to happen?" Clauda said in her vlog. "I don't know. Nobody knows."
Seconds later, Claudia can be seen walking alongside her mother, arm-in-arm, who said: "Claudia and I are going to cancel out each other's votes," Kellyanne said, a reference to the pair's obvious choices in the 2024 election.
Despite their Election Day amicability, political disagreements with her mother have occasionally escalated into intense confrontations.
In August 2020, Claudia announced on Twitter that she was "officially pushing for emancipation"—the legal process by which a minor may gain independence from their parents or guardians—and said that her mother's job as a Trump aide had "ruined [her] life."
Hours later, Kellyanne announced that she would be stepping down from her role as Trump's advisor, saying that the move would allow for "less drama, more mama" with her children.
However, the pair's public spats again reached a boiling point in January 2021, when Claudia accused her mother of posting a topless picture of her via Twitter's Fleets feature, and of being "physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive," Vox reported at the time, citing since-deleted TikTok's on her account.
Newsweek reached out to Kellyanne Conway via her official website for a response.
The 2024 presidential election has seen the pair again butt heads over their respective stances on abortion and their support for each party's candidate.
Claudia debated with her mother on the latter's Fox Nation show in September, during which they engaged in largely amicable disagreements over former president Trump, and agreed on the deficiency in "binary" views of American politics.
"Claudia, people will ask you or ask me consistently, 'oh, how can you disagree politically and love each other?' As though politics is more important than love," Kellyanne said during the opening of the discussion. "You and I know what our relationship is."
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