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She's also resigning as a member of Congress, and she will no longer be involved in politics at all. Everything Donald Trump touches dies. She was once viewed as a rising star within the Republican Party. She worked for George W. Bush in the 2000s. She went to Harvard. She was then a prot of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. When Donald Trump came into office during the first regime, she started more closely being an ally of him. She went all in on Donald Trump and maga. She was an election Denier. When Donald Trump lost in 2020, she started calling the January 6th insurrectionist hostages. And she went from being a moderate who was elected in New York's upstate area to now being MAGO radical who turned her entire New York constituency against her. She became a loathe political figure. And she was, even for all of her loyalty, utterly disrespected by Donald Trump and MAGA Mike. Because that is what they do in the MAGA movement. They chew you up and they spit you out. You'll recall that she was appointed by Donald Trump to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. And then she was pulled from that role. And then you had the guy who was involved in Signal Gate replace her and get rewarded for leaking classified information on Signal. Elise Stefanik then pivoted back to Congress, where she then said that she would be running for governor of New York against Kathy Hochul. All the polls had Elise Stefanik getting absolutely destroyed. I mean, New Yorkers and hate Elise Stefanik right now. One of the things that Stefanik was trying to, you know, run on is Kathy Hochul endorsed Mamdani. And she would say, mom, Donnie is this radical and extremist and anti Semitic and all of like, you know, just this defamation against. Against Mamdani. And then Donald Trump was asked in the Oval Office when he was standing next to Mamdani, you know, do you think this guy is bad for New York or do you think. And he'd go, elise Stefanik has said all of these things about him. What do you make of that? And Trump's like, yeah, I don't think Elise Stefanik's right about this guy. And so at every step of the way, for all of her loyalty and for all of her just totally throwing out any of, like, what she claimed her principles to be in college and during the early days when she was a young leader in the conservative movement, when that used to exist. Her career is trash. Her career is destroyed. She is done with politics. He is out. And I'll read for you her statement right now. And then I'll read Governor Hochul statement, because Stefanik was going to be running against Hochul for the governorship of New York. Here's what Stefanik said. While spending precious time with my family this Christmas season, I've made the decision to suspend my campaign for governor and will not seek reelection to Congress. I did not come to this decision lightly for our family. I'm truly humbled and grateful for the historic overwhelming support from Republicans, conservatives and independents and Democrats all across the state for our campaign to save New York. That's not really what the polls were showing. The latest Sienna Research poll had you down by 20 points to Governor Hochul. But go on, go on. She goes on to say, thank you to my dedicated staff. It's been a incredible professional honor. She goes, as we've seen in past elections, while we, we, while we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it's 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. She goes on to say, I'm proud of the significant results we've delivered. Thank you for your support and encouragement as my family and I look forward to the next meaningful personal and professional chapter. Now going back probably into her family's business. And see you later. Bye. Bye. You played yourself. You destroyed your career by giving up any of your principles to just do whatever Donald Trump wanted. And Trump and MAGA chewed you up and spit you out and treated you like crap. After all the loyalty you showed them, your legacy is that of a disgrace. Your legacy is of a pathetic loser. That's what your life is now. That's what your legacy is. You did that. Hold yourself accountable. You screwed up big time. And what actually could have been a promising career. Horrible. Every day, look in the mirror and know how terrible of a life you've lived. Elise Stefanik. And I'm not trying to be harsh. She's just an awful human being. And I'll come with some receipts shortly. Governor Hochul's campaign spokesperson put out the following statement. Elise Stefanik has finally acknowledged the reality. If you run against Governor Hochul, you're going to lose. As Donald Trump raises costs on New York and targets this state relentlessly, Governor Hochul has cut middle class taxes, put money back in New Yorker's pockets and fought this administration and won. When New York has come under attack, the fact is 100% MAGA Bruce Blakeman traveled all the way to D.C. to celebrate Trump's expensive tariffs. He ran Long Island Safety Net Hospital into the ground by appointing corrupt cronies to run it and let violent crime in Nassau county spike to its highest level in decades. Governor Hochul's message to him or whichever lackey Trump picked to run against her, a simple bring it on. And Elise Stefanik, utterly disgraced right now.
