Elise Stefanik suspends run for governor, will retire from Congress : reports

NEW YORK, December 19 (C'est Vrai) — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y. 21) announced Friday that she was suspending her campaign for New York governor and that she would retire from Congress at the end of her current term. Twice, President Donald J. Trump (R) withheld support for Stefanik's advancement : first, for a post at the U.N., and second, for her run for New York's governorship. Stefanik joins U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. 14) in retiring after becoming disenchanted with men holding all of the power.

Further Reading :

• Rep. Elise Stefanik set to drop her bid for NYS governor [POLITICO]
  Dec. 19, 2025 — Rep. Elise Stefanik is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to her upstate House seat, she announced Friday.
• Trump Didn’t Clear a Path for Stefanik in the N.Y. Governor’s Race [The New York Times]
  Dec. 10, 2025 — With two allies, Elise Stefanik and Bruce Blakeman, running for governor of New York, President Trump is not making an endorsement — for now.
• Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador [The New York Times]
  March 27, 2025 — The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party’s slim House margin and protect her seat.

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