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PatSeg

(52,173 posts)
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 11:18 AM Dec 22

He's just not into you Elise

Maybe you need to get a Mar-a-Lago face?

Elise Stefanik Tried Everything to Please Trump. He Still Jilted Her.

Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, was willing to be the team player with the stiff upper lip.

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 she’d had enough.

She was done with the governor’s 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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He's just not into you Elise (Original Post) PatSeg Dec 22 OP
What will happen to those donations? efhmc Dec 22 #1
Good question PatSeg Dec 22 #5
I love how she got totally dragged in the comments section AStern Dec 22 #2
She certainly has a popularity problem PatSeg Dec 22 #6
Ah, but did she try Ozempic, extensions and Mar a Lago face? tanyev Dec 22 #3
Ha, ha, that was my thought as well PatSeg Dec 22 #7
Bwaaaaah malaise Dec 22 #4
Yeah, politics can be a truly dirty business PatSeg Dec 22 #8
Too uggie to get endorsement nt mr715 Dec 22 #9
Yeah, if a woman can't be beautiful PatSeg Dec 22 #10

PatSeg

(52,173 posts)
6. She certainly has a popularity problem
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 02:16 PM
Dec 22

Not a good thing if you've chosen politics as your career choice.

tanyev

(48,662 posts)
3. Ah, but did she try Ozempic, extensions and Mar a Lago face?
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:27 PM
Dec 22

That might have gotten her somewhere.

PatSeg

(52,173 posts)
7. Ha, ha, that was my thought as well
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 02:19 PM
Dec 22

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)
4. Bwaaaaah
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:33 PM
Dec 22

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PatSeg

(52,173 posts)
8. Yeah, politics can be a truly dirty business
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 02:20 PM
Dec 22

She is smart enough, she should have realized that, but I think she was blinded by her ambition.

PatSeg

(52,173 posts)
10. Yeah, if a woman can't be beautiful
Mon Dec 22, 2025, 03:09 PM
Dec 22

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.

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