CBS6 Albany, 5/14/2021
EXHIBIT A OF SLAVISH DEVOTION. “I believe that voters determine the leader of the Republican Party, and President Trump is the leader that they look to. I support President Trump, voters support President Trump. He is an important voice in our Republican Party, and we look forward to working with him.”
There is not and never will be any unity in the GOP as long as Trump is worshipped as Dear Leader.
Best,
Retiring Guy
The statement is expected to take aim at former President Donald J. Trump’s stranglehold on Republicans, which signatories to the document have deemed unconscionable.
“When in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively in defense of liberty and justice,” reads the preamble to the full statement, which is expected to be released on Thursday.
The GOP boogies its way to doomsday on Trump's hellbound express.
When House Republicans gathered in April to discuss their campaign prospects, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was disturbed by a presentation of internal polling data shared by the National Republican Congressional Committee: The briefers left out the fact that Donald Trump, the man who was consolidating control of the party, was not popular among voters in the key swing districts where the battle for control of Congress is won or lost.
Part 1 (5/13/2021) starts here
Will the real Elise Stefanik please stand up.
“There are serious issues related to election irregularities in the state of Georgia, as well as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,” Stefanik told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, displaying her commitment to baseless doubts about a fair election ahead of the expected vote to make her the third-ranking House Republican on Friday. The diverging fates of the two women tell the story of a major American political party that has decided to live or die by a lie.
5/8/2021 update, "How to describe Elise Stefanik: New York Times editorial board member has a few choice words to offer", starts here.
New York Times, 5/7/2021
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5/7/2021 update, "Apparently, Elise Stefanik has become the Kool-Aid", starts here.
New York Times, 5/6/2021
But on Thursday, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, the Republican whom leaders have anointed as Ms. Cheney’s replacement in waiting, loudly resurrected his false narrative, citing “unprecedented, unconstitutional overreach” by election officials in 2020 and endorsing an audit in Arizona that has become the latest avenue for conservatives to try to cast doubt on the results.
5/7/2021 update, " Trump sycophant Elise Stefanik parties like it's 2020 and L'Orange is still president", starts here.
AlterNet, 5/6/2021
The 36-year-old congresswoman from Upstate New York has been criticizing Cheney for not being a team player. Appearing on "The War Room" — a podcast hosted by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon — Stefanik said, "We are one team, and that means working with the president and working with all of our excellent Republican members of Congress." But when Stefanik spoke of "working with the president," she wasn't referring to Joe Biden. She was referring to Trump and acting as though he were still the president, which plays into the lie that Biden was not legitimately elected in 2020.
5/5/2021 update, "Trump party girl and marionette Elise Stefanik looks to shove aside Liz Cheney ", starts here.
Yup, she's a Trump cultist through and through.
Stefanik, who represents a district in upstate New York, emerged as a fierce Trump backer and won the accolades of the then-President during his first impeachment proceedings. While Cheney voted against Trump's first impeachment on charges of abusing his office and obstructing Congress, she voted to charge him with inciting the January 6 insurrection during his second impeachment proceeding. Stefanik stood by Trump on both impeachments and also joined her colleagues in signing onto a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate millions of votes in the 2020 election that was eventually thrown out by the Supreme Court.
It helps that she represents a mostly white and aging congressional district. Trump won the district by 10.4 percentage points in 2020, down from 13.9 percentage points in 2016.
Original 11/21/2019 post, "'New GOP star' Elise Stefanik is likely to have a re-election battle on her hands next year", starts here.
But her performance was also a galvanizing moment for Democrats, who swarmed Ms. Stefanik’s Democratic challenger, Tedra Cobb, with social media attention and donations: Ms. Cobb’s campaign announced a weekend fund-raising haul of more than $1 million.
Among the wave of donors was George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer who is married to President Trump’s White House counselor, Kellyanne Conway, and is now a prominent critic of Mr. Trump. Mr. Conway posted a screenshot of his $2,800 contribution on Twitter, and was among other left-leaning social media luminaries, including Chrissy Teigen, George Takei, Mark Hamill and Zach Braff, who encouraged their followers to follow suit.
Stefanik's margin of victory shrank by 21.2 percentage points in 2018.
Source: Ballotpedia
Source: Wikipedia
Sources: My Congressional District (NY 21 CD), U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts (NY, US)
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Other Elise Stefanik posts:
No friend to the environment. (11/20/2014)
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