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Friday, November 7, 2025
Trump ally Elise Stefanik launches bid for New York governor, blasts NYC mayor-elect as ‘antisemitic’
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US Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Trump ally known in part for excoriating university presidents about campus antisemitism, announces she will run for governor of New York state.
The move, widely expected, comes in the wake of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City, despite warnings from some Jewish leaders that electing the former anti-Israel activist could inflame antisemitism in the city.
Stefanik’s announcement video blasts incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul as responsible for a supposed wave of migrant crime, and denounces the newly elected Mamdani as a “defund the police, tax-hiking antisemitic communist.”
Kathy Hochul is the Worst Governor in America. Under her failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills. When New Yorkers were looking for leadership from our Governor, she bent… pic.twitter.com/HXyQlNIjEj
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) November 7, 2025
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