She WAS wasting her time trying to reach for the Governorship on SOLID Blue New York State….
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) announced Friday that she was suspending her bid for New York governor and would also be retiring from Congress.
Her stunning announcement came shortly after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a fellow ally of President Trump, jumped into the primary.
“While spending precious time with my family this Christmas season, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for Governor and will not seek re-election to Congress. I did not come to this decision lightly for our family,” she wrote in a post on social platform X.
“However, as we have seen in past elections, while we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York,” she added.
Stefanik’s announcement, which came just as the Justice Department released files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, took political observers by surprise. She was long seen as the likely front-runner in the GOP primary, having built a reputation in Congress as one of Trump’s fiercest defenders.
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Stefanik last month formally launched a bid against Hochul, while Blakeman jumped into the race earlier this month. Trump declined to make an endorsement, lauding both of them.
A Siena College Poll released this week showed Hochul leading Stefanik by 19 points in a hypothetical head-to-head, while the governor holds a 25-point lead over Blakeman….
Please check the poll’s below…
| POLLSTER | DATE |
HOCHUL (D)
*
|
STEFANIK (R)
|
SPREAD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siena | 12/8 – 12/12 | 49 | 30 |
Hochul+19
|
| Siena | 11/10 – 11/12 | 52 | 32 |
Hochul+20
|
| Manhattan Institute** | 10/22 – 10/26 | 42 | 43 |
Stefanik+1
|
| Siena | 9/8 – 9/10 | 52 | 27 |
Hochul+25
|
| Siena | 8/4 – 8/7 | 45 | 31 |
Hochul+14
|
| Siena | 6/23 – 6/26 | 47 | 24 |
Hochul+23
|
Note….
Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blackman has NOT Better chance of beating Current Democratic Governor Hochul….
Trump used her up then tossed her overboard.
No sympathy for her though .
She went from a “ moderate “ Republican to super MAGA sycophant for Trump in an embarrassing short period of time.
Stefanik was a prime example of a “ believe in nothing” Republican .As her political career comes to a merciful end we wave her a “fond” farewell.Alas Elise!we hardly knew ye…Good riddance to a prime example of everything that’s wrong with current politics.
I have said here Donald IS ‘One Way…..
He ain’t changing
Donald also has little respect for women
I wonder what a gubernatorial contest would have looked like between Elise Stefanik (R-Conservative) and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (D-Working Families).
He, he, he…..
A BULDOZER run over….