By Michael Woyton
In 2018, pundit and political strategist Rick Wilson wrote a book titled “Everything Trump Touches Dies.”
If it were practical and financially feasible to do daily updates, it would be interesting to see if there were already an appendix on Elise Stefanik, the now former ambassdor-designate to the United Nations.
Someone at the headquarters of GOPmaga Inc. finally woke up to the realization that there might very well be some dissatisfaction with the Trump/Musk/Mike Johnson shenanigans going on in Washington, D.C. BTW: How’s your 401(k) doing?
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Besides the town hall protests, the Tesla protests and the economic boycotts, where better for the voting public to express their displeasure than at the ballot box?
Newsweek reported on a new poll Wednesday that down in Florida Democrat Josh Weil is within five points of overtaking Republican Randy Fine to fill the House seat that WhiskeyLeaks national security advisor Mike Waltz vacated to become best phone buddies with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.
That district voted for President Donald J. Felon by 30 points in 2024, so it shouldn’t really be a competitive seat when the voting is completed April 1.
Democrat Gay Valimont is seeking to fill the congressional seat left empty when Matt Gaetz was nominated for attorney general, and we all know how that turned out for him.
She’s running against Republican Jimmy Patronis, who doesn’t even live in Florida Congressional District 1 and said that where he lives won’t be an issue for the voters, according to reporting from WKRG-TV.
These two races could mean the difference in whether the House and Speaker Mike Johnson continue to have a slim margin or no margin at all.
But back to the congresswoman from upstate New York. No special election was set by Gov. Kathy Hochul because Speaker Johnson wanted to keep Stefanik on the House rolls due to the fact that he needs every single possible Republican vote to get anything passed.
Imagine Stefanik’s surprise when she found out that the golfer-in-chief decided Thursday to withdraw her nomination to be the U.N. ambassador, meaning she doesn’t get to live in the ambassador’s New York City apartment and has to go back upstate and pretend she cares about her constituents.
Also imagine what must have been going through Stefanik’s head remembering all the sucking up and ass-kissing she had to do to get that Cabinet position.
Now she has to stay in Congress — and she still has to ass-kiss and suck up, not only to the grifter-in-chief but to Johnson who said she will be welcomed back into the already filled leadership.
Wilson was right: Everything Trump touches dies.
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