sat . BREAKING: ‘BYE BYE!’ Elise Stefanik Drops NY Governor Bid and QUITS Congress After Trump Pulls Support
Elise Stefanik’s once-meteoric MAGA rise just crashed back to Earth — and the timing says everything.
On Friday, the Trump-loyal congresswoman abruptly suspended her campaign for New York governor and announced she won’t even bother seeking reelection to Congress. In other words, the political math went south fast — and Stefanik saw the writing on the wall.
After reinventing herself from a moderate Republican into a full-blown MAGA attack dog, Stefanik banked her future on Trump’s blessing. She defended him through impeachments, amplified his 2020 election lies, and even landed a UN ambassador nomination — only to have Trump yank it back to protect the GOP’s razor-thin House majority.
That should’ve been the warning sign.
Stefanik entered the governor’s race hoping to clear the field and cruise to the nomination. Instead, fellow Trump ally Bruce Blakeman jumped in, forcing a bruising primary — and Trump suddenly went silent. No endorsement. No rescue. Just vague praise for “two fantastic people” as Stefanik’s poll numbers cratered.
A recent Siena poll showed her trailing Gov. Kathy Hochul by a humiliating 19 points. Even worse, Trump undercut her entire strategy by warmly praising NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — the very figure Stefanik had been using to smear Democrats as “radical.”
With donors wary, Trump noncommittal, and New York voters unimpressed, Stefanik folded. Now she joins a growing list of MAGA Republicans bolting from Congress amid chaos, infighting, and Speaker Mike Johnson’s crumbling leadership.
After a decade of political shape-shifting and loyalty tests, Stefanik’s grand MAGA gamble ends not with victory, but with a quiet exit and a party scrambling to pick up the pieces.
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