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PatSeg

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Mon Dec 22, 2025, 11:18 AM Dec 22

He's just not into you Elise [View all]

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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