The representative Elise Stefanik, a key Republican ally of President Donald Trump, is considering a career for New York governor, said a source familiar with his thinking to ABC News.
Stefanik’s office did not comment immediately.
Governor Kathy Hochul runs for re -election in 2026 in Empire State and is competing for her second complete mandate in office.
President Donald Trump nominated Stefanik to be the United Nations ambassador and was replaced as president of the Chamber’s Republican Conference by Michigan’s representative, Lisa McClain.
Elise Stefanik speaks during the annual conservative political conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 22, 2025.
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However, on March 27, a week before his confirmation vote in the Senate, Trump announced that he was withdrawing his nomination, citing the thin Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
“There are others who can do a good job at the United Nations. Therefore, Elise will stay in Congress, will join the camera leadership team and continue to fight for our incredible American people,” Trump said in Truth Social.
The representative Elise Stefanik joins the republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump during a campaign concentration at the Groappon Convention Center, on January 19, 2024 in Concord, NH
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“It’s about ascending as a team, and I am doing it as a leader, to ensure that we can take this mandate and deliver these historical results,” Stefanik told Fox News that night.
The New York congresswoman in the state of New York has been increasing among the ranks in the hill for her conservative positions.
She played a key role in Congress response to anti-Semitism on university campuses in the middle of the Israel-Ahamas War. He also accused the United Nations of anti -Semitism.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, speaks at a press conference, February 20, 2025, in New York.
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Although to a great democratic, the state of New York has seen voters move red in recent years.
Hochul won the 2022 elections with only 377,834 votes, approximately 53% of the total vote, surpassing the American representative Lee Zeldin. In the 2018 elections, then Gov. Andrew Cuomo won with more than 1.4 million votes, approximately 59.55% of the total vote, surpassing the then Dutches county executive, Marc Molinaro.
