{"id":358742,"date":"2025-12-19T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:12:05","slug":"rep-elise-stefanik-to-drop-her-candidacy-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358742\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Elise Stefanik to drop her candidacy for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is dropping out of the New York governor’s race, and will not seek reelection to Congress.<\/p>\n

Stefanik sent a statement in a tweet just before 4p.m. Friday announcing her decision.<\/p>\n

“As we have seen in past elections, while we would have overwhelmingly won this primary, it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources\u00a0to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted\u00a0Republican primary, especially\u00a0in a challenging state like New York,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

Stefanik, a close ally of President Donald Trump who represents New York\u2019s sprawling 21st Congressional District, announced she was running for governor\u00a042 days ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since announcing her candidacy, however, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman joined the race, and Trump has not publicly endorsed either candidate.<\/p>\n

“[Stefanik is] a friend, [Blakeman is] a friend. These are two great people running. I hate to see them running against each other. I hope they\u2019re not going to be damaging each other,\u201d Trump recently said.<\/p>\n

In the latest polling in the race, Siena University found Hochul maintained a double-digit lead<\/a> over Stefanik and Blakeman in a hypothetical general election matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is dropping out of the New York governor’s race, and will not seek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11638,54436,177507,4,450,40361,21336,17045,451,54434,1999,21335,3,54435,111,3100,7739,452,453],"class_list":["post-358742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-bernadette-hogan","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-buffalo","tag-capital-region","tag-central-ny","tag-headlines","tag-hudson-valley","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}