Exclusive | NY Rep. Lawlers Democratic challenger Cait Conley claims Trump is the greatest threat to America
The Democrat challenging Republican Rep.Mike Lawler for his Hudson Valley House seat claims the greatest threat to America comes not from our foreign adversaries, but from President Trump.Cait Conley, an Army veteran who served as a top national security adviser in the Biden administration, has given numerous speeches where she’s said the “greatest threat to America’s future is coming within our own borders” — namely Trump and Republicans.“I never thought that I would feel like the greatest threat to our country and our future would come from within our border and that is what we are seeing with this administration,” Conley said in a speech to the Rockland County NAACP on April 23.During a July Zoom fundraiser, Conley said, “I truly believe the greatest threat to America’s future is coming from within our own border right now.
The corruption, the dysfunction, the fact that we have a president that is more focused on chaos and corruption and lining the pockets of his friends to the detriment of our nation and our future and even our national security.”During a Sept.28 AFL-CIO candidates’ night, the Democrat noted she oversaw election security during the 2024 campaign.“The biggest threat that we faced wasn’t from our foreign adversaries.
It was from the consequence of the big lie that 2020 was rigged right inside our own country,” she said, referring to Trump claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him when he lost his re-election bid to Joe Biden.On May 14 speech, Conley said, “I never thought I’d feel that the greatest threat to its future, to its values, would come from within its own borders.And that is what we are seeing play out with this administration, enabled by a Congress that has put political ambition and political loyalty ahead of country and people.”Lawler challenged the characterization.“Cait Conley led counterterrorism efforts on President Biden’s National Security Council, but believes that the greatest thre...