Well, it's official: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's silly gamesmanship at Friday's impeachment hearing has changed the political landscape right outside our front door.
"The sudden attention given to the race in New York's 21st Congressional District demonstrates how the nation's partisan divide can invigorate a little-noticed upstate outpost — covering a massive chunk of Adirondack forests and towns known as the North County — and turn it into a major electoral battleground," The New York Times reports.
The Times also reminds readers that our 2020 Democratic candidate, Tedra Cobb, lost to Stefanik by a hefty margin in 2018: 14 points. But we cats would argue that Tedra does not have to make up that much ground between her and the now-full-on-Trumpy Elise next year.
Those 14 points are not a monolith. Think of them in terms of these voters: There's Benedict Donald's base, made up of older white males with unhealthy lifestyles (and guns in the house), a lot of whom could be dead by next November. There are new residents who are moving here for cheaper real estate than they can find in the lower Hudson Valley, and who never knew Elise as the "moderate problem-solver" she always pretended to be. And finally, there are the independent and/or suburban voters, appalled and repulsed by Stefanik's embrace of Trump, who will vote against her just for that. (See: Louisiana, Kentucky.)
Things change awfully fast for this hapless, cowardly party known as the GOP, don't they? As of tonight, Elise Stefanik's got a race on her hands. Who'd have thought it? We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Tedra's smiling a lot these last few days.)
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