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How New York’s GOP chair beat Paladino, Stefanik and his Republican foes
ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Elise Stefanik represents a region on the opposite side of the state from New York’s new 23rd congressional district. Yet she went to great lengths to affect the outcome of the Republican primary there on Tuesday — and failed.
Stefanik not only endorsed Carl Paladino, a Buffalo developer and one of the most controversial figures in modern New York politics. She also dispatched her trusted aides to the district in Western New York, where they personally advised the candidate.
It helped that former President Donald Trump told Stefanik to get behind Paladino, according to a Republican familiar with their discussions. It certainly helped too that Paladino had supported some of Stefanik’s past races — even before she became the third-ranking member of the House GOP. “Loyalty,” the Republican said, “is everything to Elise.”
But what also appears to have driven her was a running feud with the man who ultimately won the primary: Nick Langworthy, the chair of the state GOP. And local leaders took notice. Some said on Wednesday that Stefanik’s backing of Paladino over Langworthy was clear evidence of long-held grudges, not a political strategy for the good of the party.
“She was trying to get back at Nick for things that had nothing to do with this race — personal reasons,” said Rodney Strange, a Chemung County legislator and former county GOP chair who backed Langworthy.
Stefanik’s failure to do so might not hurt her standing in Washington, where she’s become an influential far-right figure deeply loyal to Trump. In New York, where Langworthy has clout and a more moderate wing of the party behind him, it might give her a diminished role, especially when it comes to the selection of a new leader for the state party.
It’s not the only blow she took on Tuesday: Stefanik also stumped heavily for Republican Marc Molinaro, who lost a special election to fill the remainder of a Hudson Valley congressional seat.
In the 23rd district, which covers Buffalo’s suburbs and stretches across much of New York’s Southern Tier border with Pennsylvania, some local leaders were left unhappy by Stefanik’s involvement in the race. Some said it might have backfired with voters ahead of the general election — exposing them to one of the most extreme members of their party.
“I was highly disappointed about her position on the race,” Dwight “Mike” Healy, the chair of the Allegany County GOP, said. “It wasn’t in the best interest of our district, for sure.”
One Republican who has been involved in multiple local Republican races said Langworthy’s win was a “black eye” on Stefanik’s leadership because she chose to back a candidate that few of her colleagues in Washington viewed as a stable addition to the …read more
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/nick-langworthy-paladino-stefanik-new-york-gop-00053756