The Upstate New York House Republican has been saying things she has had to rearrange in public and explain ….
Over the past week, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, the third-ranking House Republican, has blasted President Biden for providing infant formula to undocumented immigrants while “American mothers” suffer amid a nationwide formula shortage.
She has attacked Democrats and “pedo grifters,” borrowing language from the baseless pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory that claims there is a Satan-worshipping cabal of liberal pedophiles, which has evolved into a movement on the right.
And after the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, where a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in a racist rampage, Ms. Stefanik is under scrutiny for campaign advertisements she has circulated that play on themes of the white supremacist “great replacement” theory. That belief, espoused by the Buffalo gunman, holds that the elite class, sometimes manipulated by Jews, wants to “replace” and disempower white Americans.
Last year, in an ad on Facebook, Ms. Stefanik accused “radical Democrats” of planning what she described as a “PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION.”….
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Ms. Stefanik, a onetime moderate Republican who worked in President George W. Bush’s White House and was a protégé of former Speaker Paul D. Ryan, has long been seen as a rising star in her party, and she still is. But as she has ascended, the Republican Party has transformed, lurching to the right along with her district in upstate New York, and she has shape-shifted along with it.
Now, she proudly describes herself as an “ultra MAGA” warrior and aggressively appeals to the hard right, sounding nativist themes that animate the Republican base.
The racist massacre, which unfolded in her own state, has shone a spotlight on Ms. Stefanik. In the days since, Democrats and even some Republicans have suggested that Ms. Stefanik and her party have stoked the beliefs that led to the killings, by catering to a base that will not tolerate outright condemnation of the most fringe ideas….
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She’s got no “foot n the mouth” problem.
She’s just a Republican.
Most of what she says is what most Republicans think.
Stefanik IS the typical Republican.
You need to open your eyes at long last.
This is what the Republican Party is today.
Is this NOT trying to find ‘wiggle’ room?
In a statement to Newsweek, Stefanik’s senior advisor Alex DeGrasse said: “Any implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the Congresswoman is a new disgusting low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and the sycophant stenographers in the media. The shooting was an act of evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
“Despite sickening and false reporting, Congresswoman has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement….
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No, James, that is NOT seeking wiggle-room.
It’s a standard attempt to flip a Democratic accusation against them, as in “It’s a cynical Democratic ploy to blame Pres. Trump for January 6th. Every patriotic American should be outraged.”
And of course racists usually say they’re not racists; but that doesn’t mean they’re not.
Jack will remember far more vividly than I that a standard segregationist (Thurmond, Stennis, Eastland) would insist that he bore no antipathy for the Negro: he just wanted to keep a system that was the best for both races.
Yes I well remember those days.I was but a teenager but I used to hear that line at rallies in the sixties.Hell we were taught that in school.(I attended totally segregated schools until the tenth grade when two Blacks were admitted .Our student body was over 1000)
Stefanik well knows what she’s saying and she knows who she is appealing to with that garbage…
REPUBLICANS!
They eat that stuff up.
James really believes ,or at least want to believe ,that somehow If Republicans just got rid of Trump ,the Republican Party would return to the way it was about ten years ago(when Mitt Romney was its presidential candidate) .
In my view some of the progeny of Trumpism ,particularly DeSantis, are worse that Trump himself.
Remember that this Stefanik character was once labelled a “moderate”
I guess “moderates” just ain’t what they used to be!
The comment from the staff member IS an attempt to have things BOTH WAYS…..
You guys ARE correct…..
Formerly an upstate NEW YORK moderate GOPer….
She HAS turned to the ‘dark side’…..
No
Matter
Again?
After seemingly coded racist remarks?
The story is the lawmaker does NOT support racism?
If that ain’t trying to ‘wiggle’
What IS?
AGAIN?
Wiggle Room efforts by Stefanik…..
Democrats, and some Republicans, have also pointed to a tweet this week from Stefanik that reads, “Democrats desperately want wide open borders and mass amnesty for illegals allowing them to vote.”
Stefanik has denied that her remarks were racist.
“I’ve never made a racist comment, and I’m known nationally as expanding the Republican Party by supporting Black candidates and Hispanic candidates,” Stefanik said during a CNN interview on Monday…
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