--- title: Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls description: Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway acknowledged the Republican nominee's latest dip in the polls canonical: https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-23T16:06:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:21:38.342Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls: 'We Are Behind' og:description: She also walked back his threats to sue women accusing him of sexual misconduct og:url: https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc43efa3bd078e9/6988ab29ab6d772b6b6aba7d/kellyanne-conway.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Conway answers questions in the spin room after Trump and Clinton had their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls: 'We Are Behind' twitter:description: She also walked back his threats to sue women accusing him of sexual misconduct twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc43efa3bd078e9/6988ab29ab6d772b6b6aba7d/kellyanne-conway.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls: 'We Are Behind' by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 23, 2016 4:06 PM UTC  Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican nominee Donald Trump, answers questions after the final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas on Oct. 19, 2016. Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican nominee Donald Trump, answers questions after the final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas on Oct. 19, 2016.Jonathan Ernst—Reuters by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 23, 2016 4:06 PM UTC Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway acknowledged the Republican nominee’s [latest dip in the polls](http://fortune.com/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-leading/?xid=homepage). “We are behind,” Conway said on _Meet the Press_. Trump has fallen behind rival Hillary Clinton, who is [up by double digits](http://fortune.com/2016/10/23/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-leading/?xid=homepage) in some recent polls. Trump’s dip comes largely from disapproval of his treatment of women and his refusal to say whether he will accept the results of the election. Conway said the shortfall in polls is due to Clinton’s other advantages over Trump. “She has a former president, happens to be her husband, campaigning for her,” she said. “The current president and first lady, vice president—all more popular than she can hope to be. And she’s seen as the incumbent.” Conway also walked back Trump’s threats from Saturday, when he [said he would sue](http://time.com/4541780/donald-trump-threatens-lawsuit-against-accusers/) the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Multiple women over the last month have alleged Trump inappropriately touched or kissed them without consent in events spanning decades. Trump has [repeatedly denied](http://time.com/4537900/donald-trump-sexual-assault-presidential-debate/) the claims. “He’s just, I think, putting people on notice, that they can’t just falsely accuse them,” Conway said. “He has said, ‘None of this has happened, they’re all fabrications and lies.'” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls: 'We Are Behind'","datePublished":"2016-10-23T16:06:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:21:38.342Z","description":"Trump's campaign manager also walked back his threats to sue women accusing him of sexual misconduct","url":"https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc43efa3bd078e9/6988ab29ab6d772b6b6aba7d/kellyanne-conway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bc43efa3bd078e9/6988ab29ab6d772b6b6aba7d/kellyanne-conway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Conway answers questions in the spin room after Trump and Clinton had their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate at UNLV in Las Vegas","caption":"Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, answers questions in the spin room after Trump and Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate","creditText":"Jonathan Ernst—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4541959/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-polls/","name":"Kellyanne Conway Acknowledges Donald Trump's Dip in Polls: 'We Are Behind'"}}]}] ```