This is not surprising, what you’re about to see. Elise Stefanik was all set to ascend to the prestigious and cushy post of U.N. Ambassador and all the privileges and fanfare attendant thereto. She could just taste the prestige. Then, THUD! That’s the sound Stefanik made when she hit the ground after Donald Trump pulled the rug out from under her and let her know in no uncertain terms that she would end up staying in the House to rubber stamp his policies. That would have been cruel in any event, but since she had left the GOP conference leadership, she truly got the short end of the stick. Hey, we’ve been saying for years, ETTD. So here’s what Elise has in mind now.
Yeah, that's not happening. She doesn't realize the only thing that got her elected the last three times was that (R) next to her name, and that's up here where the counties are so red it hurts. The state doesn't want her, only the yokels living outside the cities.
— FurBearingMammal (@FurryVarmint) May 3, 2025
That would happen in 2026. Will Stefanik do it? It’s a little too early to say. She would be putting a safe red seat in possible jeopardy, but she’d be putting herself in substantially more. Stefanik might be a MAGA wunderkind (excuse me an ULTRA MAGA wunderkind, as she described herself) but I doubt if she can play out to New York State as a whole.
This is a lot like Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reported gubernatorial ambitions in Georgia. Greene’s freak show plays out in her district. There is nothing to indicate that she could win a state-wide race like for the governorship but it would be comical as hell to see her give it a shot.
And she may. One thing that the second coming of Donald Trump has achieved is that a lot of Republicans now feel omniscient, like the sky is the limit and few, if any, seem to keep an eye on the cold hard statistics, which is that Trump won a narrow plurality and his poll numbers have been plummeting the past 100+ days he’s been in office, not skyrocketing upwards.
Trump’s well on his way to becoming the next Herbert Hoover and taking the GOP down with him. There’s a recession going on in fast food, particularly with Trump’s beloved McDonald’s, and pundits are seeing this as a sign of people becoming nervous about money and pinching pennies. Supply chain interruptions are expected to manifest this month and stores are getting worried about Xmas stock, due to Trump’s trade war — yet evidently Marge Greene and Elise Stefanik see opportunity ahead.
I can see Stefanik making a certain amount of noise about doing something on her own because following Trump has left her worst off than she was before. So that part makes sense. But if she’s actually planning on running for governor next year, she might find yet another rude awakening.
And Stefanik would deserve it. What she doesn’t seem to have grasped is that when she was the shining light of a young generation of Republicans, she should have stayed with that and not climbed on board the Trump train. Once she sold her basic value system out, and went from conservative to MAGA (to ULTRA MAGA) the ball got rolling. Now she’s indelibly identified with Trump. Maybe she’s just starting to realize what a mistake that is and seeing if she can change it. In all events, I’m sure she’s pissed about the incompetent Mike Waltz getting her ambassadorship. Who wouldn’t be?
“One thing that the second coming of Donald Trump has achieved is that a lot of Republicans now feel omniscient, like the sky is the limit”
The thing they don’t realize is, that they cannot do what tRump does. They are not him.
He seems to have very little in the way of coat tails.
Huh. I hadn’t heard about Margarine Traitor Greene’s plans to run for Governor of Georgia. I *had* heard about her current 4th-place standing among GOPers in a potential Senate run (Denis’s story from a few days ago).
I don’t see that she’d fare any better in a race for Governor. As far as I’m aware, she would have to pick one job or the other–ie, a decision to run for Governor vacates a reelection bid to the US House and running for reelection to the House nullifies any chance at running for Governor.