New York Republicans Fracture Over Bruce Blakeman

Elise Stefanik's fall from grace and favor is a cautionary tale

Elise Stefanik's embrace of Donald Trump seemed set to earn her the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. But now the lawmaker who rose to fame by labeling pro-Palestinian campus protests as antisemitic, is facing the downside of aligning too closely with the famously transactional president

Elise Stefanik snubbed Trump's pleas not to drop out of the NY governor race: report

When it became clear that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was going to drop out of the race to challenge Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, allies of President Donald Trump privately reached out begging her to change her mind, but to no avail.Stefanik, a former moderate Republican lawmaker turned har...

New York Republicans Fracture Over Bruce Blakeman

Rachel Bade: “When Rep. Elise Stefanik last week notified President Donald Trump of her decision to drop out of the New York gubernatorial race, the commander-in-chief and his team made a soft, 11th-hour appeal to change her mind. After Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman declared his candidacy days before, the president had raised eyebrows by publicly demurring from choosing a horse in the primary. But his equivocation, close Trump allies te…