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Rep. Stefanik Announces Gubernatorial Run

By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZEL
SARATOGA

Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican and close ally of President Donald Trump representing the North Country in Congress, announced her long-expected candidacy for governor of New York State on November 7.

“Kathy Hochul is the Worst Governor in America,” Stefanik wrote in a post on X, repeating a nickname she has been using for months now while teasing her candidacy. “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 the knee to the raging Defund the Police, Tax Hiking Communist causing catastrophe for New York families.”

According to her campaign site, Stefanik’s policy priorities include cutting taxes, ending bail reform, ending sanctuary city policies, expanding “school choice,” and lowering “energy and utility costs by expanding energy independence.”

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