{"id":76191,"date":"2025-12-20T01:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:09:19","slug":"elise-stefanik-ends-campaign-for-new-york-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76191\/","title":{"rendered":"Elise Stefanik ends campaign for New York governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign<\/a> for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Stefanik, a Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said \u201cit is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York.\u201d <\/p>\n

Stefanik was facing Bruce Blakeman, the executive of Nassau County, in what was expected to be a bitter Republican primary in the governor\u2019s race to take on Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox said the party respected Stefanik\u2019s decision and thanked her for her efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBruce Blakeman has my endorsement and I urge our State Committee and party leaders to join me,\u201d Cox said in a prepared statement. \u201cBruce is a fighter who has proven he knows how to win in difficult political terrain.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1626,153,38272,416,424,417,1354,426,23035,9,11,10,87,420],"class_list":["post-76191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-donald-trump","tag-edward-f-cox","tag-elections","tag-elise-stefanik","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76191","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=76191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}