ICYMI: BIDEN’S FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNTERTERRORISM DIRECTOR CAIT CONLEY KEEPS TELLING VOTERS AMERICA’S GREATEST THREAT IS VOTERS “WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS” WHO DON’T VOTE THE WAY SHE WANTS THEM TO
October 12, 2026
The New York Post caught her using the line time and again on the campaign trail, over two dozen times, saying that folks inside the United States who have voted for a Republican are a greater threat than Al-Qaeda, ISIS, or Hamas. Conley has repeatedly said her campaign “isn’t about left vs. right, it’s about right vs. wrong” – so does Cait Conley think calling Republicans the greatest threat to our country instead of terrorist groups isn’t wrong?
Pearl River, NY — October 12, 2026 — For the first two years of the Biden administration, Cait Conley was a counterterrorism director on the White House National Security Council. On the campaign trail, she has a different idea of the country’s greatest threat. According to an exclusive in this morning’s New York Post, she means President Trump and anyone who’s ever voted for a Republican…
The Post showed that Cait Conley has made this a plank of her platform. Conley told the Rockland County NAACP on April 23 that she “never thought” the greatest threat to our country “would come from within our border.” On a July Zoom fundraiser, Conley told donors she “truly believe[s] the greatest threat to America’s future is coming from within our own border right now.” At the AFL-CIO’s Sept. 28 candidates’ night, she said the biggest threat to the United States “wasn’t from our foreign adversaries.”
On June 17, six days before the primary, Conley told Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles livestream that “the greatest threat to America and to our future is coming from within our own borders right now.”
Congressman Lawler told the Post that Conley “believes that the greatest threat to our country isn’t Al Qaeda, ISIS, or even Russia or China,” and called it “insane and disqualifying.” Conley’s campaign didn’t walk any of it back.
“Cait Conley spent years going after terrorists, so she knows what a real threat to this country looks like. And yet, Cait’s telling voters in the Hudson Valley the greatest threat is people not voting how she wants them to,” said Lawler for Congress Campaign Manager Ciro Riccardi. “Does Cait Conley really believe someone who voted for Mike Lawler in 2022 and 2024 is a bigger danger to America than ISIS or Al Qaeda? And if she does, how exactly does she plan to work with anyone in Congress who doesn’t vote the way she wants?”
Don’t miss the New York Post’s full story here.
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