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Former President Donald Trump believes he can win New York state, the former president said on a tele-rally Saturday night with House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Breitbart News exclusively learned. The tele-rally, lead by Stefanik, dialed out to nearly one million Trump supporters to push early voting, a source familiar with Stefanik’s effort told Breitbart News. “We want to get everybody out [to vote] because we think we could actually win New York,” Trump told supporters on the call. “We’re leading, as you know, in all the swing states, and I think we’re leading potentially very big. We set...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed another ethics complaint against Judge Juan Merchan on Friday, accusing the acting Manhattan Supreme Court justice of a conflict of interest due to his daughter’s recent work for the Kamala Harris campaign. Stefanik asked the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to launch “a fresh inquiry” into a $468 payment from the Harris camp to Loren Merchan’s digital political consulting and marketing firm, Authentic Campaigns. The transaction took place July 30, days after the suspension of President Biden’s re-election effort, and was “one of the very first things that Harris did upon taking over...

Congressional Republicans are probing Kamala Harris’ national security adviser for “blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests” and entertaining “connections” to an Iranian influence operation that swept up a now-suspended State Department official and three of his aides. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote a letter to the vice president on Wednesday demanding answers to questions about the adviser, Philip Gordon, who co-authored op-eds with one of the aides to suspended Iran special envoy Robert Malley and Malley himself — both of whom were involved in the Iranian influence campaign. “Since last year, I have...

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House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Judge Juan Merchan for an alleged conflict of interest pertaining to his daughter’s role at a firm known for representing Democratic politicians. Merchan, an acting Supreme Court justice in New York, is presiding over the unprecedented criminal trial against former President Trump stemming from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed the complaint with the New York State Commission on Judiciary Conduct, warning that Trump, who pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying business records, faces "a maximum of 136 years’ imprisonment" if...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has filed a bar complaint against New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James. The complaint alleges James violated the rules of professional conduct and claims she conducted a biased investigation and prosecution of former President Donald Trump. * * * Stefanik has requested that the Attorney Grievance Committee conduct an investigation and interim suspension against James. Stefanik’s full complaint can be viewed below.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who has been shunned by former President Trump’s allies, called House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) a “total crackpot” in an online post Tuesday. Cheney, who was a leader of the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, posted a link to a statement Stefanik previously made condemning the mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Biden’s election over Trump in 2020. “One day she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot,” Cheney wrote on X,...

The former president has spoken highly of the New York congresswoman, and his allies say she's high on the list of vice presidential prospects. WASHINGTON — During a candlelit dinner with Mar-a-Lago members in late December, former President Donald Trump walked around the table as the conversation turned to one of the biggest decisions he’d have to make should he become the Republican nominee: Whom should he pick to be his running mate? That’s when Rep. Elise Stefanik, the hard-charging upstate New York Republican, came up, according to a person at the dinner table. Attendees around Trump raved about her...

Democrats have spent years lecturing Americans about the risks former President Donald Trump’s return would pose to “democracy.” Now, the Democrat Party is out to destroy democracy in the name of saving it by attempting to prevent Republicans from appearing on ballots across the country.On Tuesday, the Democrats’ ad hoc spokeswoman on NBC, Kristen Welker, pressed House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York over whether she would vote to certify the upcoming election. Stefanik refused to offer a blind commitment.“We will see if this is a legal and valid election,” she said. The comment came after the New...

In an NBC interview Sunday, Rep. Elise Stefanik deftly demonstrated how to handle Democrats’ false claims about a Jan. 6, 2021 “insurrection” to justify criminalizing the speech of the half of the country that opposes their policies. At the beginning of “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker’s interview with Stefanik, Welker played a deceptively edited clip from Jan. 6, 2021. On the House floor, Stefanik characterized the events from earlier that day as “tragic” and stated that violent individuals should be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” Had NBC honestly portrayed the clip, it would have included the...

If you didn't catch The Elise Stephanik interview on Meet the Press, take the 10 minutes to watch. She crushes it, slams the corrupt NBC gal interviewer, totally destroys the Dem talking points, and should school every GOP Congressman out there how to do an interview. Totally prepared, Elise slices and dices the gal who kept reading what her Dem Party gave her to say. Very impressed, she keeps growing and did not rule out serving in the Trump administration when he gets elected.

Stefanik is concerned about the “treatment of January 6 hostages.” This BIG and growing - republicans have tried STERNLY written letters, voicing their disapproval - What is Next? A letter in their high school personal file? It has been over 3 years. The American people deserve better. More Americans are going to be imprisoned and yet the republicans are the party of NO ACTION.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Sunday stopped short of saying she will certify the 2024 election results, saying she will “see” if this year’s election is “legal and valid.” Pressed on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” over whether she will vote to certify the 2024 election results no matter what the result is, Stefanik said, “We will see if this is a legal and valid election.”

She took no responsibility for the plagiarism allegations nor the state of campus hatred toward Jews and Israel. Despite the resignation as university president, Ms. Gay will remain a Harvard faculty member. The school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, first reported the resignation. Ms. Gay’s tenure was just over six months and is the shortest in the 387-year history of the school. Ms. Gay has been accused of plagiarism stemming from her career in academia. According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, there were six new plagiarism charges against Ms. Gay in a report submitted anonymously to the...

State Republicans are expected to appeal the ruling.. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Thursday blasted the Albany Supreme Court's decision to allow New York's new early voting law to take effect ahead of a special election to fill the seat of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. "The decision to dismiss our request for an injunction to halt the implementation of mass unregulated mail-in early voting is just another example of New York’s lawless and rampant corruption," Stefanik wrote in a press release. "The New York Constitution is very clear, if you would like to request an absentee ballot, there is a...

Viewers were displeased following SNL's cold open Saturday night, which mocked last week's congressional hearings on campus anti-Semitism. The opening sketch attempted to make light of the college presidents' lacking testimony, but their efforts evoked few laughs. Then backlash began online, where viewers slammed the sketch for attempting to undermine the seriouesness of anti-Semitism on US college campuses in the weeks since the October 7 terror attack.

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has issued a groveling apology for her refusal to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people on campus in her remarks to Congress — as Harvard University President Pauline Gay backtracked on her testimony. In a video posted on the Ivy League’s website Wednesday, Magill tried to explain her failure by saying she was not “focused” on the issue, and said that she wanted to “be clear” that calls for genocide were “evil, plain and simple.” But she also seemingly blamed university policies and even the US Constitution for allowing the calls...

This week Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed 10 voting reform bills passed by the Democrat majority legislature. She asserted that "we are safeguarding the integrity of our electoral process and ensuring equal access to the ballot box, we empower every New Yorker to have their voice heard. New York State remains committed to strengthening our democratic process, championing the right to vote for every citizen and cementing our place as a national leader on voting rights." The New York Republican State Committee, the Republican National Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee have filed a lawsuit challenging a portion of...

Stefanik said she will demand answers from the Feds about a limousine company — whose owner was an FBI informant — responsible for an upstate crash that killed 20. In the Oct. 6, 2018 disaster in Schoharie, N.Y., near Albany, a limo, packed with young partygoers en route to a brewery for a surprise birthday, careened into a parked car before barreling into a ravine. It was the deadliest US transportation accident in a decade... The doomed vehicle lacked both federal and state certifications. The car had been retrofitted with 12 feet of extra carriage added to the middle. It...

Former President Trump said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has his support for Speaker if the GOP wins a House majority in Tuesday’s midterm elections as anticipated. Trump also threw his support behind Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) for another term as chair of the House Republican Conference, telling Fox News, “I think she’s fantastic.” The former president revealed the endorsements in an interview on Monday on the eve of Election Day. McCarthy faces no public challengers to the top slot in the House if Republicans win the majority. The party needs to net just five seats on Tuesday to...