New York Republicans face infighting after election losses
Party leaders and grassroots activists are blaming one another as some Republicans call for new leadership and a sharper message after the losses.
- On Thursday, Rep. Elise Stefanik and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman engaged in a public dispute following Blakeman's gubernatorial defeat to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, with each trading accusations over campaign support.
- The confrontation erupted 48 hours after Tuesday's midterm elections, with Blakeman accusing Stefanik of being a "selfish, do-nothing politician" who failed to support Republican candidates, while Stefanik countered she voted for the Republican ticket.
- Stefanik told The New York Post that Blakeman ran a "low energy campaign with limited resources that lacked an apparatus." Manhattan Institute's Ken Girardin said the party "doesn't have answers."
- Grassroots organizers are calling for 80-year-old New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox to step down, while Stefano Forte of the New York Young Republican Club pushes the party to embrace right-wing populism.
- Some Republicans are floating defeated Rep. Mike Lawler as a potential replacement for Cox as the party attempts to regroup. Cox stated the party must "regroup, come together and develop a strategy for moving forward.
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Bruce Blakeman, the Jewish Nassau County executive who lost the New York governor’s race to Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, by almost 20 points, is drawing widespread criticism for attacking his former GOP primary rival, upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik. “Elise Stefanik is a selfish, do-nothing politician that didn’t lift a finger to help Republican candidates in New York this year,” Blakeman wrote on Thursday. “She had one moment of glory in what was…
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