Kellyanne Conway

OVERVIEW

Kellyanne Conway is a Republican pollster and political strategist who served as Counselor to President Trump. Her polling firm, The Polling Company, conducted the methodologically flawed surveys for CSP that were used to justify anti-Muslim policies.

CSP CONNECTION

• Her firm conducted CSP's poll on American Muslim attitudes — widely criticized by polling experts for biased question framing and non-representative sampling
• Trump directly cited this CSP/Conway poll during his December 2015 call for a ban on Muslim entry to the United States
• The poll became the statistical foundation for the "Muslim ban" executive orders

SIGNIFICANCE

Conway's role demonstrates how CSP's messaging was professionally packaged through her polling firm and then weaponized as policy justification. The flawed poll she produced for CSP became one of the most consequential pieces of anti-Muslim propaganda in modern American politics.