{"id":2176844,"date":"2024-02-15T06:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-of-their-eye-a-trump-and-stefanik-ticket-has-gop-in-a-new-york-state-of-mind\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:02:07","slug":"apple-of-their-eye-a-trump-and-stefanik-ticket-has-gop-in-a-new-york-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-of-their-eye-a-trump-and-stefanik-ticket-has-gop-in-a-new-york-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Stefanik: GOP&#8217;s New York state favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapple-of-their-eye-a-trump-and-stefanik-ticket-has-gop-in-a-new-york-state-of-mind%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2176844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Riding\u200c the Coattails: Can Republicans Reclaim New York in 2024?<\/h2>\n<p>Riding the coattails of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-appeals-court-orders-congressional-maps-be-redrawn\/\" title=\"NY appeals court orders redrawing of congressional maps\">favorable congressional \u200dmap<\/a> and negative Democratic headwinds on crime and the economy, Republicans scored\u200b surprise wins in New York \u2062in 2022 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apple-of-their-eye-the-house-gop-has-a-math-and-a-map-problem-in-new-york\/\" title=\"GOP in NY has a math and map issue\">wrestle back control<\/a> of \u2064the House. In this four-part series, the Washington Examiner will take a look at how focused the GOP will be on the Empire \u200cState in 2024 and if it can stop \u2064the Democratic Party from regaining the upper hand in its traditional stronghold. Part four of this series examines how former President Donald\u2062 Trump is trying to rekindle\u200b an association between Republican politics and New York that has been absent \u2062for decades.<\/p>\n<h3>A Surprising Possibility<\/h3>\n<p>Voters are staring down a once-unthinkable possibility in this year\u2019s\u2064 presidential election: two New\u200c Yorkers topping the Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump appears to be running away with the GOP nomination, while House Republican\u200d Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is among the most-rumored of his \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/melania-is-pushing-hard-for-tucker-carlson-to-get-a-major-role-in-trump-administration-report\/\" title=\"Melania strongly supports Tucker Carlson for key role in Trump administration: Report\">vice \u2062presidential possibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If paired up, both of the GOP standard-bearers this fall would hail from the Empire State, which is\u2062 traditionally \u200bone of the country\u2019s most reliable\u200d Democratic\u2064 strongholds. While Trump resides in Florida\u2062 now, \u200bhis decadeslong history in\u2063 New York leaves him strongly associated with\u200b the state in\u2064 voters\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe former \u2064president\u2064 is certainly associated with New York, and especially New York City,\u201d New York-based Democratic \u200cstrategist Jack O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cHis career, his\u200b fame, his show, all of these things are kind of \u2064associated with \u2063New York. \u2063So \u200dit seems \u200donly right that he\u2063 would pick a New\u200b Yorker like Elise Stefanik to be on the ticket now that he\u2019s no longer a resident of the \u200bstate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Geographic diversity was once considered important for\u200c the presidential ticket but may no longer be\u2062 a \u200dconsideration for most voters, \u2064even if \u200cboth Republicans emerge from \u200ca\u200b traditionally blue state, as ideology is now paramount.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of Stefanik as \u2062running mate would mark another milestone in Trump\u2019s transformation of the\u2062 GOP from\u200c a business-friendly, small government-minded political party to \u2063one embracing populism, tariffs, and the social safety\u200c net.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, \u200dby background, would seem an odd figure to lead this \u2063transformation. New York has historically been\u2063 the epicenter of the liberal, Chamber of Commerce-oriented Republican Party, as embodied by figures such as Nelson \u2062Rockefeller, former state governor and vice president, and \u2062George Pataki,\u2064 former three-term governor.<\/p>\n<p>Both men ran for president but were usurped at the national level by more conservative \u2062figures. Rockefeller fell to Arizona Sen. \u200dBarry Goldwater in 1964, and Pataki briefly sought the 2016 Republican nomination but was saddled by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delusions-of-progressive-resistance-in-pas-heartland\/\" title=\"Delusions Of Progressive \u2018Resistance\u2019 In PA\u2019s Heartland\">left-leaning positions<\/a> on abortion, gun control, \u2064and climate change. Pataki dropped out after failing to top 1% in polling.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, \u2064at one point, boasted his own\u2062 ties to \u2062the socially liberal politics of\u2063 his city, describing himself as a supporter of \u2062abortion rights, donating to Democratic candidates, and spending most of the aughts as\u200c a registered Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>He jettisoned all of that upon launching his successful \u2062campaign \u200dfor president in the\u2063 summer of 2015. In a now-famous announcement \u200bspeech, Trump outlined his antagonism toward New\u200d York \u200cCity\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI \u2063started off in a small office with \u200bmy father in Brooklyn and Queens, and my father said \u2026 \u2018Donald, don\u2019t go \u2064into Manhattan. That\u2019s the\u2063 big leagues. We\u200c don\u2019t\u200d know anything about that. Don\u2019t do it,&#8217;\u201d Trump\u200d said. \u201cI said, \u2018I gotta go into Manhattan.\u200c I gotta build those big buildings. I gotta do it, Dad. I\u2019ve gotta do it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump did do it \u2014 he \u200cgave the speech from Manhattan\u2019s Trump Tower \u2014 but always harbored an antagonistic attitude toward New York\u2064 City\u2019s \u200cbusiness elite.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe always wanted to \u2063be but\u200c never was accepted by the bluebloods of Wall Street,\u201d former Democratic operative Sandy Maisel said of Trump. \u200b\u201cI think that\u2019s part of what moved him. He \u2064said, \u2018I will beat you all\u200d at your own\u200c game.\u2019 You can\u2062 define a\u200d lot of Trump\u2019s personal \u2062effect by his craving to be accepted by a \u2063group that has never accepted him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump channeled that outsider spirit of fighting \u2063against the \u2064elites to connect with voters across the country during\u200d his campaigns, even and especially in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>The antagonism ran both ways, with\u2064 Pataki calling\u200d Trump \u201ca poisonous mix of bigotry and ignorance\u201d in the waning days of the 2016\u2064 contest. Trump decamped to Florida in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s politics\u2062 are more in line with\u2063 her geography. She represents a House district in\u2062 upstate New York that runs from the Albany suburbs where she grew up \u2062to the border with Canada. It\u2019s a largely rural area that went for Trump in \u20632016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUpstate \u2063and Long \u2063Island have a long\u2063 tradition of running counter to the New York City and New York City suburb limousine Republicans,\u201d O\u2019Donnell explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stefanik \u200dhas been a Republican since her teenage years and is now one \u200bof Trump\u2019s staunchest and most\u200c consistent defenders, which has fueled much of the vice president buzz surrounding her.<\/p>\n<p>She has slammed\u200c \u201cradical leftists,\u201d urged her colleagues\u2064 not to support a southern border immigration \u200ddeal, and even said specifically that she would not have\u2062 certified the results of the 2020 election the way\u200d former \u2062Vice President Mike Pence did.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Stefanik isn\u2019t picked, or the\u2062 ticket doesn\u2019t win, such statements are not likely to \u2062hurt her, given her Republican-leaning district.<\/p>\n<p>But whether the populist version of the Republican Party can make further inroads in New York state remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Former New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin,\u200d a Trump ally, outperformed expectations during\u200b the\u200b 2022 \u200bgovernor\u2019s\u200d race, \u200dgaining the highest\u200b percentage of the vote for a Republican since Pataki\u2019s successful 2002 bid. He was\u200c also credited with helping\u200c the GOP flip\u200d four seats in the House,\u2062 crucial in Republicans winning back overall control of the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Zeldin lost to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), and Democrats still hold supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature. Both of New \u200cYork\u2019s U.S. senators \u200care Democrats, as are 15 of its 25 House members. Through a\u200b spokesman, Zeldin\u200d declined an interview request for this story.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party, as long\u2064 as they find themselves as a\u200c populist party, will find \u2062themselves\u200d the minority party in New York,\u201d Maisel said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Maisel does not think\u2064 most presidential election \u2064voters, even in\u2063 the \u2063interior of the country, will be concerned about having two New Yorkers topping the GOP ticket.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMaybe if you had two traditional New Yorkers or even two traditional East Coast establishment people running,\u201d he said. \u2064\u201cBut Trump doesn\u2019t fall into that category.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How\u2062 do the recent Republican \u200bvictories in New York\u2064 in 2022 affect the\u2063 possibility of the GOP reclaiming the state in the 2024\u200b elections?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Exploring the possibility of Republicans reclaiming\u2063 New York in the 2024 elections, a recent article by the Washington Examiner delves into the association between former President \u2063Donald Trump and the Empire State. With the surprising Republican victories in \u200cNew York in 2022, the article examines whether\u2062 the GOP can maintain its\u2064 momentum and prevent the Democratic Party from regaining control.<\/p>\n<p>One striking \u200cpossibility discussed in the article \u2063is the potential for two New Yorkers to top the Republican ticket in the 2024 presidential race. Former President Donald Trump, who appears to\u200d be the front-runner for the\u200b GOP nomination, is\u2063 speculated to consider House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik as his \u2063running mate. If \u2062paired together, the ticket would consist of \u200btwo Republican \u200bcandidates from New York, which historically leans Democratic. Although Trump currently resides in\u2063 Florida, his\u200d long history in New York has\u200d left a lasting \u200dassociation between him and the state in the\u2062 minds of voters.<\/p>\n<p>While geographic diversity was once deemed\u2062 important \u200cfor\u2064 a presidential ticket, the article suggests that ideology has taken precedence\u2064 in recent years. Thus, the potential selection of Stefanik as Trump&#8217;s running mate could reflect his influence on transforming the GOP into \u200da party that embraces populism, tariffs, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erickson-let-david-slay-goliath\/\" title=\"ERICKSON: Let David Slay Goliath\">social safety net<\/a>. This is\u2062 a departure from the party&#8217;s traditional identity, which revolved around \u200cbusiness-friendly, small government-oriented policies.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the irony of Trump leading this transformation, as New York has historically been the stronghold of the liberal, Chamber of Commerce-oriented faction of \u2063the Republican Party. Figures like Nelson Rockefeller and George\u200d Pataki, former governors of New York, embodied this traditional Republican identity. However,\u2063 both men \u2063faced challenges \u2063at the national level from more conservative figures, indicating a shift within the party. Trump, despite \u2062his previous association with socially liberal politics and the Democratic\u200b Party, successfully rebranded himself as a conservative candidate during \u2064his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The article sheds light on \u2063Trump&#8217;s outsider perspective, which appealed to voters across the country, particularly in rural areas. It also examines the animosity between Trump and\u2062 the New York City business elite, who he often viewed as adversaries. Trump&#8217;s desire to be accepted by the establishment that\u200b rejected him played \u2063a significant role in his campaigning style and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Stefanik&#8217;s politics align more closely with her \u200cgeographic area. Representing an\u2063 upstate\u200d New York district that includes rural areas, she has maintained her support base by emphasizing local concerns. This region has a history of diverging\u2064 from the more liberal politics associated with New York City and its suburbs, which has led to a unique breed of &#8220;limousine\u200c Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the 2024 elections \u2064approach,\u2062 the article highlights the interaction\u2064 between Trump&#8217;s association with New York\u2062 and his potential impact on the Republican Party&#8217;s prospects in the state. While \u2064it remains uncertain whether Republicans can fully reclaim New York from its Democratic stronghold, the dynamics\u200d of the upcoming elections\u200b promise an intriguing \u2063political landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans made surprise wins in New York in 2022, benefiting from a favorable congressional map and Democratic challenges on crime and the economy. 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