As Donald Trump and his team start the process of finding a 2024 running mate, it’s not exactly a secret that House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik is under consideration. The former president has admitted as much.
With this in mind, the New York congresswoman is going to cringeworthy lengths to impress Team Trump, abandoning any sense of shame. Stefanik, for example, has echoed the former president’s rhetoric about Jan. 6 criminals being “hostages,” and soon after, the House GOP leader removed her original statement about the Jan. 6 attack — a statement that’s no longer consistent with far-right talking points — from her official website.
As Stefanik continues to rebrand herself as a radical and reactionary politician, her efforts to impress Team Trump are far from over. USA Today reported overnight:
Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from upstate New York who is being floated as a possible vice presidential pick for Donald Trump, said Thursday she would not have certified votes on Jan. 6 if she was in Vice President Mike Pence’s position. “I don’t think that was the right approach,” said Stefanik to CNN’s Kaitlan Collin. “I think it is very important that we continue to stand up for the Constitution and have legal and secure elections, which we did not have in 2020.”
For now, let’s put aside the fact Pence obviously did the right thing by following the law on Jan. 6. Let’s also not dwell on how truly breathtaking it was to see Stefanik talking about standing up “for the Constitution,” while describing a radical plot to overturn the results of a free and fair election because her corrupt ally didn’t like the results.
Instead, let’s consider the GOP’s apparent race to the bottom.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, for example, is also rumored to be in contention for his party’s vice presidential nominee. Two weeks ago, however, Time magazine reported that some of Trump’s “staunchest allies are…
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