{"id":35261,"date":"2025-11-10T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35261\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:24:06","slug":"stefanik-picks-up-endorsements-from-gop-county-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35261\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanik picks up endorsements from GOP county executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has picked up numerous endorsements from Republican county executives around the state after <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/politics\/2025\/11\/06\/rep--elise-stefanik-to-announce-run-for-new-york-governor-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she launched a campaign on Friday for New York governor in 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s campaign said Monday that nine GOP county leaders have backed her campaign, including:<\/p>\n<p>Chautauqua County Executive Paul Wendel<br \/>\nChemung County Executive Christopher Moss<br \/>\nDutchess County Executive Susan Serino<br \/>\nMontgomery County Executive Peter Vroman<br \/>\nOneida County Executive Tony Picente<br \/>\nOnondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon II<br \/>\nOrange County Executive Steve Neuhaus<br \/>\nPutnam County Executive Kevin Byrne<br \/>\nRensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe&#8217;s ready to take her message of affordability, lower taxes, public safety, and common sense to the hardworking people of our state, from Buffalo to Bayside. With people like Congresswoman Stefanik stepping up to serve and save our state, the future is looking brighter for New York. Onward to victory!\u201d Putnam County Executive Kevin Byrne said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The North Country congresswoman has <a href=\"https:\/\/nystateofpolitics.com\/state-of-politics\/new-york\/politics\/2025\/11\/07\/stefanik-racks-up-gop-support-for-new-york-governor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already racked up endorsements from nearly all county Republican chairs,<\/a> putting her well on the way to become the party&#8217;s preferred nominee.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, no other substantial GOP candidate has declared their candidacy, though others still have time to do so. In 2022, former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin was the party favorite early on and ultimately won the Republican nomination, but still had to win a primary contest against three other opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The state GOP will hold a convention early next year to formally nominate their candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik has represented New York\u2019s 21st Congressional District since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has picked up numerous endorsements from Republican county executives around the state after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,257,270,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-35261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-luke-parsnow","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}