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Elise Stefanik Tried Everything to Please Trump. He Still Jilted Her.
But everyone has their limits.
After a series of public humiliations delivered to her by President Trump his yanking of her nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador; his Oval Office love fest with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, during which the president undercut her; and the coup de grâce of his refusal to endorse her in the Republican primary for governor Ms. Stefanik on Friday afternoon announced shed had enough.
She was done with the governors race, for which she had raised more than $12 million from donors who may now be frustrated with her decision to pull out. And done with Congress altogether: She said she would not seek re-election next year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/elise-stefanik-trump-governor-congress.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.Gm5g.I96XtIzrpN0z&smid=url-share
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efhmc
(16,077 posts)AStern
(689 posts)Not one nice thing said.
PatSeg
(52,173 posts)Not a good thing if you've chosen politics as your career choice.
tanyev
(48,662 posts)That might have gotten her somewhere.
PatSeg
(52,173 posts)She really wasn't trying hard enough evidently, plus unlike a lot of Trump's sycophants, Stefanik is a smart Harvard grad. Maybe if she looked prettier and dumbed it down a bit, he might have given her some slack.
malaise
(292,798 posts)Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2025, 01:52 PM - Edit history (1)
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PatSeg
(52,173 posts)She is smart enough, she should have realized that, but I think she was blinded by her ambition.
mr715
(2,715 posts)PatSeg
(52,173 posts)by Trump's standards, they need to be rich and/or powerful.
Even loyal sycophants have gotten thrown under the bus just because he didn't like the look of them.