{"id":37967,"date":"2025-12-19T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/elise-stefanik-ends-bid-for-new-york-governor-and-plans-to-leave-congress\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:56","slug":"elise-stefanik-ends-bid-for-new-york-governor-and-plans-to-leave-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/elise-stefanik-ends-bid-for-new-york-governor-and-plans-to-leave-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Elise Stefanik ends bid for New York governor and plans to leave Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-allied Republican said attempting to unseat Democrat Kathy Hochul \u2018is not an effective use of our time\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Republican US representative Elise Stefanik \u2013 a staunch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/30\/elise-stefanik-trump-republican-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ally<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> who calls herself \u201cultra-Maga\u201d \u2013 is ending her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/07\/elise-stefanik-new-york-governor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">campaign<\/a> for New York governor and will not seek re-election to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EliseStefanik\/status\/2002121519342793163\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> on X: \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<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/19\/elise-stefanik-ends-new-york-governor-campaign-leaving-congress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-allied Republican said attempting to unseat Democrat Kathy Hochul \u2018is not an effective use of our time\u2019 Republican US representative Elise Stefanik \u2013 a staunch ally of Donald Trump who calls herself \u201cultra-Maga\u201d \u2013 is ending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek re-election to Congress. Stefanik wrote on X: \u201cIt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}