George Conway
Democrat
Constitutional litigator (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz partner 1994 to 2018); co-founder Lincoln Project (2019); founder Society for the Rule of Law (relaunched 2023 from Checks and Balances 2018); host of George Conway Explains It All podcast at The Bulwark
Non-Incumbent · Public Record PIP Political Integrity Pledge · Political Integrity PAC
- No Corporate PAC Money
- Stock Trading Ban
- Lobbying Ban for Former Members
- Overturn Citizens United
T Transparency
59.4%
+0.5 from Political Integrity Pledge
Top positive drivers
- T4 FEC verified through Q1 2026: $3.23M raised, $0 corporate PAC, $0 PAC of any kind, $0 self-funding, ~69% small-dollar unitemized; explicit no-corporate-PAC-money pledge on campaign launch. 4/4
- T7 Decades of unfriendly-media engagement including conservative outlets, Fox pushback, hostile cross-examinations as litigator, multiple non-friendly debates and forum appearances in NY-12; demonstrated willingness to face scrutiny. 4/4
- T21 Daily press availability for the past decade; primary professional output is media engagement; documented responsiveness to substantive press inquiries. 4/4
Top negative drivers
- T13 No documented position on energy or utility pricing transparency. 0/4
- T15 No documented position on AI or algorithmic transparency. 0/4
- T18 No documented position on education funding transparency. 0/4
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- T1 Active campaign with public forum appearances at 92NY, Upper East Site, and Jewish community panels; no documented town-hall schedule or geographic rotation across the district yet. 2.25/4
- T2 Congressional financial disclosure required; 2017 joint disclosure with Kellyanne Conway showed $11M to $44M in assets; no proactive tax-return release for the campaign. 2/4
- T3 No public position on a congressional stock trading ban or blind-trust requirement documented on the campaign platform. 1.25/4
- T4 FEC verified through Q1 2026: $3.23M raised, $0 corporate PAC, $0 PAC of any kind, $0 self-funding, ~69% small-dollar unitemized; explicit no-corporate-PAC-money pledge on campaign launch. 4/4
- T5 FEC filings public with 100% individual contributions itemized or unitemized per legal requirements; no donor list publication beyond the FEC baseline. 3.13/4
- T6 Twenty-plus years of legal commentary explaining decisions and reasoning, including the Bulwark podcast George Conway Explains It All and steady Atlantic and Washington Post columns; voting rationale is the literal product. 3.13/4
- T7 Decades of unfriendly-media engagement including conservative outlets, Fox pushback, hostile cross-examinations as litigator, multiple non-friendly debates and forum appearances in NY-12; demonstrated willingness to face scrutiny. 4/4
- T8 Few endorsements documented at this stage; no published endorsement list with stated bases or commitments. 1.25/4
- T9 Campaign issues page is short and high-level; no public dashboard, promise tracker, or quantified commitment list. 1.50/4
- T10 Plain-language constitutional explanation is the trademark of the Bulwark podcast and the Lincoln Project commentary; accessible-language standard is well-documented. 3.75/4
- T11 Generic lower-healthcare-costs framing; no PBM disclosure, hospital pricing, or facility-fee transparency mechanism named. 1/4
- T12 Acknowledges exploding housing prices pushing working families out of NYC; no zoning, beneficial-ownership, or LLC-disclosure mechanism specified. 1.25/4
- T13 No documented position on energy or utility pricing transparency. 0/4
- T14 Career-long government accountability advocate through Lincoln Project oversight ads, Society for the Rule of Law, and 25th Amendment Project; supports federal spending visibility without a specific named federal dashboard proposal. 3/4
- T15 No documented position on AI or algorithmic transparency. 0/4
- T16 Strong rule-of-law framework and DOJ politicization criticism; no specific federal law-enforcement accountability bill named in the platform. 2.50/4
- T17 Mother is Filipino immigrant; criticized Trump immigration crackdown as breaking international law; no specific case-tracking or processing-time disclosure mechanism. 2.25/4
- T18 No documented position on education funding transparency. 0/4
- T19 Has criticized Trump tariffs in podcast and column commentary; no detailed federal tariff-impact disclosure proposal. 1.50/4
- T20 Some commentary on Trump foreign-policy lawlessness; no specific aid-disclosure or military-spending visibility proposal. 1.25/4
- T21 Daily press availability for the past decade; primary professional output is media engagement; documented responsiveness to substantive press inquiries. 4/4
- T22 Documented record of fact-checked legal commentary across thousands of public statements; ferociously corrected Trump misinformation throughout 2017 to 2026; consistency across hostile and friendly outlets. 4/4
- T23 Active campaign with public forum events; gap is documented non-donor constituent service framework or accessibility commitment beyond ordinary campaign visibility. 2.50/4
- T24 Litigation career produces public legal filings; Lincoln Project amicus briefs are publicly filed; Society for the Rule of Law publishes legal analysis; supports FOIA and accountability culture. 3/4
- T25 Six-year public commitment to rule-of-law accountability has been operationalized through Lincoln Project, Society for the Rule of Law, sustained legal advocacy, and 25th Amendment Project; rare alignment between stated platform and actual record. 4/4
E Efficiency
37%
Top positive drivers
- E6 Lincoln Project (2019 to 2026), Society for the Rule of Law (2018 to 2026), Carroll case counsel team, and 25th Amendment advocacy are all sustained multi-year delivery commitments. 4/4
- E24 Personally reformed his own party affiliation when the GOP failed the accountability test; co-founded the Lincoln Project explicitly to change course based on evidence; documented willingness to break with party on principle. 4/4
- E9 E. Jean Carroll case produced an $88M jury verdict; Lincoln Project advertising contributed to documented swing-state movement in 2020; concrete prior-domain outcomes verifiable. 3.50/4
Top negative drivers
- E3 No documented position on regulatory performance review. 0/4
- E5 No documented position on technology modernization. 0/4
- E11 No specific healthcare delivery or admin-efficiency position. 0/4
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- E1 No legislation; Lincoln Project ad campaigns had measurable polling and earned-media impact, partial credit under non-incumbent prior-domain rules. 1/4
- E2 Constitutional litigation career anchored in case-law precedent and evidentiary record; legal reasoning style is rigorously cited. 3/4
- E3 No documented position on regulatory performance review. 0/4
- E4 General accountability rhetoric; no specific program-evaluation framework. 1/4
- E5 No documented position on technology modernization. 0/4
- E6 Lincoln Project (2019 to 2026), Society for the Rule of Law (2018 to 2026), Carroll case counsel team, and 25th Amendment advocacy are all sustained multi-year delivery commitments. 4/4
- E7 Lincoln Project assembled bipartisan ex-Republican coalition with strategic and creative partners; Society for the Rule of Law unites conservative and centrist lawyers behind shared accountability work. 3/4
- E8 Campaign platform is high-level; specifics on agencies, timelines, and implementation pathways are largely absent. 1/4
- E9 E. Jean Carroll case produced an $88M jury verdict; Lincoln Project advertising contributed to documented swing-state movement in 2020; concrete prior-domain outcomes verifiable. 3.50/4
- E10 Lincoln Project and Society for the Rule of Law are themselves process reforms within the legal and political ecosystem; no governmental process-reform proposal yet. 1.25/4
- E11 No specific healthcare delivery or admin-efficiency position. 0/4
- E12 Argued at the 92NY candidate forum that Trump would not sign a federal housing supply bill, implying support for federal supply legislation; no detailed mechanism. 1.50/4
- E13 No documented position on energy system efficiency. 0/4
- E14 Criticized Trump immigration enforcement; no USCIS modernization or backlog-reform proposal. 1.25/4
- E15 No documented position on education system efficiency. 0/4
- E16 General rule-of-law framing; no specific community-safety or right-responder mechanism. 1/4
- E17 No documented position on workforce or jobs efficiency. 0/4
- E18 General oversight rhetoric and Pentagon waste references; no specific waste-reduction proposal. 1.25/4
- E19 No documented position on infrastructure delivery. 0/4
- E20 Criticized Trump foreign-policy lawlessness and unilateralism; no specific multilateralism or alliance-rebuilding platform. 1.50/4
- E21 Lincoln Project published metrics and post-mortems; campaign has not committed to office-level outcomes reporting. 1.50/4
- E22 Career fiscal-conservative orientation as ex-Republican; no specific federal deficit or fiscal-mechanism proposal. 1.25/4
- E23 General waste-and-corruption rhetoric; no specific GAO-anchored waste case or audit follow-through. 1/4
- E24 Personally reformed his own party affiliation when the GOP failed the accountability test; co-founded the Lincoln Project explicitly to change course based on evidence; documented willingness to break with party on principle. 4/4
- E25 Career litigation track record holding executive agencies and corporate actors accountable; Society for the Rule of Law mission is judicial and agency oversight. 3.50/4
A Affordability
29.2%
Top negative drivers
- A4 No legislative office; no documented affordability-focused staff plan or constituent-services framework. 0/4
- A18 No documented position on utility or energy affordability. 0/4
- A22 Manhattan candidate; no rural affordability framework documented. 0/4
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- A1 Congressional financial disclosure required when filed; 2017 joint disclosure with Kellyanne Conway is on public record; no proactive campaign-side disclosure or tax-return release yet. 1.50/4
- A2 Active campaign events and forum appearances; no documented dedicated cost-of-living listening sessions. 2.25/4
- A3 Cites generic groceries, healthcare, prices skyrocketing framing; no NYC-specific or NY-12-specific data integration. 1.25/4
- A4 No legislative office; no documented affordability-focused staff plan or constituent-services framework. 0/4
- A5 Campaign accessible to public via forums and ActBlue grassroots model; no specific small-business or worker outreach plan. 1/4
- A6 General fiscal-responsibility orientation; no specific budget trade-off communication. 1.25/4
- A7 Campaign proposals lack CBO-style or quantified analysis given platform thinness on policy specifics. 0.50/4
- A8 Generic government-accountability rhetoric; no specific waste case identified with dollar value or program named. 1.25/4
- A9 Lincoln Project assembled ex-Republicans on shared anti-Trump economic critique; Society for the Rule of Law spans ideological lines among lawyers. 2/4
- A10 Discloses career as Wachtell partner and constitutional litigator; no campaign chief-economist or external-advisor disclosure. 2/4
- A11 Defends the ACA and frames lower healthcare costs as priority; no Medicare for All position, no drug-pricing mechanism, no PBM proposal. 1.50/4
- A12 Notes housing prices pushing working families out of NYC; supports federal supply legislation in concept; no specific bill, unit target, or LIHTC expansion specified. 2/4
- A13 Generic cost-of-living framing references education only obliquely; no childcare, tuition, or student-debt mechanism. 0.50/4
- A14 Critic of Trump tax cuts in commentary; no detailed progressive tax mechanism or millionaires-tax position. 1/4
- A15 General lower-costs rhetoric; no specific CFPB defense, junk-fee, or predatory-lending proposal. 1/4
- A16 General affordability framing; no PRO Act endorsement, federal minimum wage figure, or paid-leave proposal documented. 1/4
- A17 Cites groceries-skyrocketing rhetoric; no SNAP, school meals, or nutrition-program mechanism. 1/4
- A18 No documented position on utility or energy affordability. 0/4
- A19 No specific transit, gas, or commuter-infrastructure position; broad infrastructure mention only. 0.50/4
- A20 Lower costs is a campaign pillar but lacks the integrated cross-cutting framework expected of a Manhattan affordability platform. 1.50/4
- A21 30 years living in NYC and references to housing prices; no NY-12-specific or Manhattan cost-of-living data integration in platform materials. 1.25/4
- A22 Manhattan candidate; no rural affordability framework documented. 0/4
- A23 Filipino-immigrant heritage referenced in launch video; no specific racial or geographic equity affordability framework. 1.25/4
- A24 Rule-of-law and abortion-rights priorities are universal in scope; affordability framing is broad but shallow on benefit specifics. 2/4
- A25 No labor-union, tenants-rights, or affordability-focused organizational endorsements documented at this stage. 0.50/4
Scored from publicly available information. Research in progress.
Published Platform
- Rule of Law — Constitutional safeguards against autocracy, write new laws to prevent the Trump-era abuses of power from being repeated, accountability for officials who break the law, second-American-Reconstruction framing.
- Government Accountability — Career-long advocacy through the Lincoln Project, Society for the Rule of Law, and 25th Amendment Project; supports impeachment and structural removal mechanisms when warranted.
- Abortion Rights — Codify Roe-era protections into federal law; defend the ACA and abortion access from federal rollback.
- Healthcare — Defend the Affordable Care Act and prevent Trump-era cuts that strip coverage from millions; lower healthcare costs without a named Medicare-for-All or drug-pricing mechanism.
- Housing — Address exploding housing prices pushing working families out of NYC; supports federal housing supply legislation in concept.
- Cost of Living — Lower costs on groceries, healthcare, and essential needs; lower costs is a campaign pillar.
- Immigration — Criticizes Trump immigration enforcement as breaking international law; family story (Filipino immigrant mother) anchors pro-immigrant framing; no specific reform mechanism.
- Campaign Finance — No corporate PAC money; running a people-powered grassroots campaign; $3.23M raised through Q1 2026 with $0 PAC and ~69% small-dollar unitemized.
- Foreign Policy — Criticized Trump foreign-policy lawlessness and unilateralism; expressed concern about Mamdani positions on Israel; no detailed multilateralism platform.
Non-Incumbent · Public Record
Scored on publicly available information only — platform statements, prior office, news coverage. Same criteria as the Questionnaire pathway, without direct candidate input.
Scoring Summary
| Axis | Base | Pledge Bonus | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transparency | 59.4% | +0.5 | 59.9% |
| Efficiency | 37% | — | 37% |
| Affordability | 29.2% | — | 29.2% |
| Overall TEA | Average of the three axes | 41.9% | |
Financial Breakdown
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