With an ear-to-ear smile, Jake Corman announced via Twitter that none other than Kellyanne Conway, perhaps Donald Trump’s favorite apologist for the “big lie,” would be joining his campaign team in his pursuit of his party’s nomination for governor.

Yet Conway’s smiling facade hides a startling history of twisted explanations for her former supervisor’s bad behavior, an adeptness at changing the subject, and an expertise for “leaking and lying,” according to a Washington Post expose. As one of its headlines screamed, “Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official.”

She now brings this expertise to Pennsylvania, courtesy of our Senate president pro tempore.

Is this the best person Corman can hire as he aspires to move to the front of the pack?

Thank goodness we won’t have him any longer as president of the Pennsylvania Senate, where he has been a stumbling block to fair elections, but his recent inexplicable tilt toward Trump and Steve Bannon, and his association with Conway, does not bode well either for his representation of his current constituents or for the citizens of the commonwealth more broadly.

Karen Stoehr, Patty Satalia and Martha Young

State College

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