Says citizens ‘are yearning for a new generation of leadership to bring common-sense leadership back’
By Joe Kovacs
A top Republican in Congress who until recently was President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is identifying “the worst governor in America” as the chief of her home state of New York.
“Kathy Hochul is the worst governor in America,” said U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the House Republican leadership chairwoman who herself is strongly considering a run for governor of the Empire State.
“I dubbed that of Andrew Cuomo, not thinking anybody could make it worse. Kathy Hochul makes the impossible possible. She is the worst governor and it’s showing in her poor, abysmal approval ratings,” Stefanik said on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
Stefanik made the cover of the New York Post on Sunday, with a banner headline of “The Right Stef,” declaring that she’s the “strongest” potential challenger to the “failed” Hochul.
When asked about her aspirations to replace the current Democrat with herself, Stefanik replied: “Absolutely, I am strongly considering, because look at the crises that Kathy Hochul and single-party Democrat rule have delivered to New York, and this has been over a period of decades.
“We have an economic crisis and an affordability crisis. If you look we are the highest tax state in the nation. We lead the nation in outmigration, in people who are leaving the state because it’s so unaffordable.