On Sunday, Israel Republican Representative and GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (NY) delivered a speech to the Knesset, the country’s parliament, to reaffirm the Republican House’s support of Israel and condemn President Joe Biden’s “.”Betrayal of the vital alliance between the USA and Israel.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (RN.Y.) strongly condemned President Biden’s policies toward Israel during a speech to the country’s parliament, the Knesset, in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
Stefanik, the highest-ranking Republican to visit Israel since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, criticized the president’s warnings could refuse support to Israel when it invades Rafah in Gaza.
“I have made it clear at home, and I will make it clear here: There is no excuse for an American president to block aid to Israel – aid duly authorized by Congress, or to ease sanctions on Iran and “To pay a $6 billion ransom to the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, or to hesitate and hide while our friends fight for their lives,” Stefanik said in prepared remarks reviewed by The Hill became.
“No apology. Period, stop,” she added. “That’s why I have sponsored or supported every measure in support of Israel that has been submitted to the US Congress. Every single one.”
Following that pivotal speech, Stefanik appeared on Fox News with Shannon Bream on Sunday to discuss why she traveled abroad to give the speech. Stefanik told Bream: “The American people stand firmly with Israel, as do the Republicans in the House of Representatives. Joe Biden has turned his back on Israel.”
After a discussion of the substance of the address and Biden’s attempts to block the supply of weapons to Israel that Congress had voted for, Bream made an attempt to “make light” of journalism. Bream introduced discussion about Stefanik being on former President and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s vice presidential low list. Bream then brought up that Stefanik opposed Trump in 2016. Brasse quotes from a New York Times Article from December 2022 and an article from January 2023 Opinion letterwhich mentions Stefanik’s less than flattering previous comments about the former president. Bream then asked Stefanik why she changed her mind about Trump.
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While Bream’s question is valid, the fact that she chose to copy a years-old article from, of all places, the New York Times makes me question Bream’s true intentions. Even though Stefanik was cautious about Trump in early 2016, she was not wrong to ultimately support his nomination.
In the wake of Donald Trump The Republican presidential nomination is in the bag, Rep. Elise StefanikR-Willsboro, expressed a muted support for “my party’s candidate” but couldn’t bring himself to say the New York mogul’s name.
In response to one Albany Times Union Upon request, Stefanik released a statement reiterating her earlier promise of party loyalty. It came just before Trump’s victory in the Indiana primary on Tuesday, forcing his last remaining opponent – the senator – to do so. Ted CruzR-Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich – from the race.
“Like my Democratic opponent, I will support my party’s candidate in the fall,” Stefanik said in the statement, referring to the retired Army colonel. Mike Derrick of Peru, Clinton County. “My main focus is to serve my constituents to the best of my ability, and I am proud that during my first term in Congress, I have worked to fulfill my campaign promise to bring fresh ideas and a fresh generation of leadership to Washington.”
When asked if she would like to add the name “Donald Trump,” her campaign adviser and spokesman, to Indiana Lenny Alcivar replied: “Our statements remain valid.”
“No candidate at any level in America, Democrat or Republican, is going to be 100 percent aligned with the presidential standard-bearers, and Elise Stefanik is no different,” Alcivar said.
The New York Times didn’t just write a hit about Elise Stefanik. Her enthusiasm for the No. 3 seed in the GOP leadership has taken on jilted lover status. Part of Stefanik’s job description as GOP chair is to unite House Republicans around their presidential nominee — which is the main reason congresswoman and former GOP chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming was replaced in the first place. So the pearl hugging and the swooning couches around the New York Times newsroom are very dramatic. Her articles are less about Stefanik’s policies, her record, or how she works for her constituents, and more about how she differentiates herself from a moderate (read, reasonable) Republican into a MAGA figurehead. Oh, the horror! Their diatribes increased significantly after Stefanik dared to follow in Cheney’s footsteps.
Here’s the hit song Bream quoted from.
To rise in the Trump-era GOP, a adolescent congresswoman gave up her friends, her mentors and her ideals. Will it be enough?
Ms. Stefanik’s reinvention has made her a case study in the collapse of the ancient Republican establishment and its willing absorption into the fresh, Trump-dominated establishment. But as Republicans prepare to take control of the House of Representatives in the coming days, her rise to MAGA stardom could also serve as a warning.
But it wasn’t just the dethroning of Liz Cheney. It was also the fact that during the impeachment hearings, Stefanik dared to question the Democrats’ efforts and called lying California Rep. Adam Schiff’s attention to his…ship. This brought the Hated from the New York Times and other left-wing circles.
In a December 30, 2020 New York Times opinion piece, Stefanik was described as “highly disappointing.”
Since her election in 2014, the New York Republican has presented herself as the sensible, moderate future of her party, making a special effort to improve her reputation among women, so it was particularly galling to see her carrying water for the most anti-democratic and misogynistic president ever.
Every New York Times headline between 2021 and 2023 tells the story of her obsession with painting Elise Stefanik with the brush of a renegade traitor.
The rapid rise of the representative Elise Stefanik New York’s appointment as the main pro-Trump messenger in the ongoing battle for the Republican soul has sparked a flurry of media reports about how a supposedly once-moderate Republican has transformed into a full-fledged, fire-breathing, far-right conservative.
March 27, 2022.
Elise Stefanik, reinvented in Trump’s image, embodies a changed GOP
Ms. Stefanik, once a mainstream Republican from a moderate constituency, is the party’s third-largest leader in the House of Representatives, and has embraced Trumpism and the extremists in her ranks.
That Ms. Stefanik, 37, would host this special party seemed fitting. A once-moderate Republican who worked in President George W. Bush’s White House and was a protégé of former Speaker Paul D. Ryan, she is the embodiment of rapid change in the Republican Party. In just a few years, she has gone from mainstream conservative to an unlikely star of the MAGA universe and a diehard Trump loyalist.
In an interview on the sidelines of the party meeting, their reinvention was clearly demonstrated. Ms. Stefanik repeated Mr. Trump’s lies about stealing the 2020 election and refused to recognize Mr. Biden as the legitimately elected president.
While Stefanik’s reaction may not have been over the top, it was perfectly legitimate to question Bream’s sources and premises. Had Bream had better or more diverse sources, Stefanik might have responded less testily about how they unfolded. After all, Stefanik’s journey mirrors that of many others in the nation. People who have found Trump repulsive or staunchly opposed to him in the past would now walk over heated coals to vote for him because we literally have a country to save.
I believed what the media told me in 2016, too. I held my nose and voted for him because I loathed Hillary. Then I watched him. I would walk over burning glass to vote for him again.
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