Posted on 12/19/2025 3:09:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday she was ending her short-lived bid for governor of New York and would not run for another term in Congress.
“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,” Stefanik wrote in a post on social media. “I did not come to this decision lightly for our family.”
The announcement came less than two months after Stefanik launched a campaign seeking to challenge Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2026, making what would have been a long-shot race in a heavily Democratic state. Stefanik recently drew a primary competitor in Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, whom she invoked in her statement.
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,” Stefanik wrote.
Stefanik’s upstate congressional district is conservative terrain, with the congresswoman winning reelection last November by 24 points and Trump carrying it by more than 20 points. Those margins are outside the average Democratic overperformance in House special elections this year and would make it a reach for the party in its pursuit to flip control of the chamber next year, when it needs a net gain of only 3 seats to win the majority.
The abrupt move brings yet another twist in Stefanik’s political arc. It’s unclear what she will do next, but for now, she is set to leave elected office in early 2027.
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This will be a big disappointment to the President.
Women, stay out of politics.
They're sensing 2026 won't be good.
NULY is a caput State. We do have a chance of 2 pickups Long Ilin Long Island.
NY is too commie, Jim.
She’ll be in ideal position to accept a position in the Trump administration after the midyear defections.
Unless she’s got a skeleton in the closet issue.
LOL- she’s in NY has has run for re-election multiples times and hass won....if they had anything on her it would’ve been revealed long ago...
Half of Bew York now lives in Florida.
Related news:
“Lummis to retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of her term in 2027” (Wyoming)
“Wyoming’s junior U.S. Senator, Cynthia Lummis, will retire at the end of her current term in 2027.
The Hill is reporting Lummis made the announcement after the Senate adjourned for the holiday break.
In a statement to The Hill, she said she didn’t have it in her to fill out another six-year term after an intense session that got particularly exhausting in the past several weeks.”
I hope so. I always liked her but there have been a lot of surprises lately.
I dont think she will.
Her only child is four. Maybe she’s serious about raising him herself or maybe have another baby.
Maybe she caught her husband with the nanny.
Maybe she’s just burned out on public life.
Not unexpected after the rug pull he gave her on the appointment to UN Ambassador.
Can’t wait to see the loser the idiots on the New York Republican State Committee will come up with. They accepted life-time RAT Michael Bloomberg to run for Mayor in 2001. I wonder how much money exchanged hands at the time. Since George Pataki beat Mario Cuomo for Governor, there hasn’t been a viable Republican Gubernatorial candidate since. And Al D’Amato was the last Republican U.S. Senator from New York.
The commies are ki11ing opposition instead of debating them.
The Deep State or someone similar won.
This is a big loss for upper New York State.
It's Friday night and the losers make negative comments about women who won't go out with them.
Her statement is really weak and doesn’t really address why she isn’t running for Congress again. All of the tried and true MAGA people will be gone from Congress.
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