“I would just say that I think all along, we've been asking the questions about the wrong candidate," Kellyanne Conway says. | AP Photo Conway: Dems to blame for nominating 'serial liar' Clinton

Democrats worried about their White House candidate have nobody to blame but themselves, Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said Monday morning, because they’re the ones who nominated a “serial liar” for president.

“I would just say that I think all along, we've been asking the questions about the wrong candidate. The Democrats own Hillary Clinton,” Conway said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “They made a huge mistake by nominating someone they know is a serial liar, has a history of having a casual relationship with the truth, of always putting Hillary first. And I think that we're seeing that come home to roost here, because they should own her.”


The FBI’s bombshell announcement on Friday that it is reviewing additional evidence pertaining to Clinton’s use of aprivate email server during her tenure as secretary of state sent shockwaves through the Democratic ticket, which had seemingly been on somewhat of a glide path to the presidency thanks to Trump's own string of controversies. While the bureau’s investigation remains officially closed, that it has resurfaced at all so close to Election Day has thrown open a window for Trump to return to one of his most potent lines of attack.

Clinton’s campaign has responded to the bureau’s announcement by calling for further transparency, for FBI Director James Comey to detail what is in these potentially fresh emails and explain what his investigators are looking at. But Conway said the former secretary of state’s team is intentionally calling for transparency that it knows the bureau cannot provide, all while Clinton’s team is more than capable of releasing the emails' contents on its own.

Conway said electing Clinton “would be a very risky choice” and added that America does not “need this ethical stain that has been Bill and Hillary Clinton for decades now to continue.”

But despite the powerful rhetorical weapon that Trump has been handed by the FBI with just over a week to go before Election Day, Conway said the GOP nominee's campaign would not dramatically shift its messaging to focus exclusively on Clinton’s emails. She said the former secretary of state’s lead was evaporating well before Friday’s revelation and that Trump will continue to campaign on the economy, terrorism, Clinton’s support for the Affordable Care Act and, yes, her ethics.

“We're going to win the election. We know that. If you're an undecided voter, you're very decided about Hillary Clinton,” she said. “There's really nothing else you're going to learn about her in these last eight to 10 days that will change your mind.”