Elise Stefanik is the perfect leader of today's GOP. Her own statements show why.

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Greg found even more ugly quotes from Stefanik which peddled knowing lies and helped inspire the insurrection

Opinion | Elise Stefanik is the perfect leader of today’s GOP. Her own statements show why.
Stefanik is one of the most determined deceivers of voters in the House GOP caucus.
washingtonpost.com
8:32 AM · May 6, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/06/elise-stefanik-perfect-gop-leader-trump/

With Republicans preparing to oust Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from the House GOP leadership and replace her with Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, reporters have been digging up past Stefanik statements displaying her true credentials as a Republican leader of the future.

Those credentials, most obviously, are her unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump and to his Big Lie about the stolen 2020 election. But another crucial credential, one getting less attention, is Stefanik’s willingness to deceive her own constituents to justify taking official action to invalidate legitimate election results.

Just before voting to object to President Biden’s electors on Jan. 6, Stefanik released a lengthy statement faithfully echoing numerous Trumpian lies about the election, included flatly debunked nonsense about 140,000 unauthorized votes in Georgia.

This showed Stefanik embracing Trump and his lies more directly than many other Republicans, who carefully couched votes against Biden electors behind procedural objections. As Josh Marshall notes, this is a big reason Stefanik is a rising GOP star.

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