Kellyanne Conway demands CNN retract all its election predictions favoring Hillary Clinton

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last updated 7 November 2016

Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told Jake Tapper Sunday that CNN must retract "all the storylines, all the headlines, all the breathless predictions of the last two weeks" suggesting that Hillary Clinton was certain to win the election.

Conway's demand came after Tapper asked her why Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign's social media director both shared a tweet incorrectly calling the false alarm incident at Trump's Reno rally Saturday an "assassination attempt." Tapper inquired why campaign representatives were "retweeting misinformation," and Conway took umbrage.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.