It's a sad day in the Elise "Elsie" Stefanik household, since Benedict Donald has yanked her nomination to be Ambassador to the UN. As soon as the rumors started flying today, Trump posted on his failing social media platform that she was out. Gosh, that was quick. You have to assume Susie Wiles told Donald he couldn't afford to weather another embarrassing drip-drip news story — not this week, at least.
The Trumpy line is that Republicans were worried that Elsie's vacant seat in the House would endanger passage of their Project 2025 agenda this year. On which we call bullshit because:
1) When did they decide to actually try to pass stuff like a real Congress, instead of having Trump govern solely by Executive Order?
2) Democrats in Albany had already decided against trying to delay the special election to replace Elsie, and Governor Hochul was poised to name a date in the near future — maybe as soon as June.
3) It's not 2025 that the Republicans are worried about. It's 2026. (Have they seen polling from next week's special elections for districts in Florida? If so, were the numbers portending future doom?)
The question now is what all the GOP hopefuls to fill Elsie's seat will do. They must be crestfallen. One, Dan Stec, just snagged the Conservative Party's endorsement the other day, giving him a big boost to getting support from all the party chairs in the district. The others? Who knows? It's a crowded field of Republican clowns, but one especially moronic goofball, Anthony Constantino, was threatening a third-party run against Stec as the nominee. We were kinda looking forward to that.
Well, no matter. Aside from sending glitter bombs to Stefanik's home in Schuylerville, our marching orders in the meantime are clear: Help Democrats win those two House seats on April 1. You can donate to Josh Weil in FL-06 (Mike Waltz's old seat) by clicking here. You can donate to Gay Valimont in FL-01 by clicking here. We cats PURR.
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