The most senior woman in House Republican leadership is avoiding the chaos.
There is a belief in some quarters of the party that Elise Stefanik could emerge as one of the GOP’s chief fundraisers since she’s so far been left unscathed by the speakership battle. | Francis Chung/POLITICOALBANY, N.Y. — Steve Scalise. Tom Emmer. Gary Palmer. Jim Jordan. Mike Johnson.
The Upstate New York Republican declined to be interviewed this week about the speaker saga. Asked in the House hallway Tuesday if she plans to run for speaker, Stefanik said she had “no updates.” “It’s resisting a lot of contrary temptations and just doing your job and doing it well,” New York Republican Party Chair Ed Cox said. “That gains you a lot of respect, and quiet respect is the coin of the realm in the House of Representatives.”
“She’s in a safe seat. She showed long-term savvy staying out of it and don’t think she’ll regret that, because who wants to be speaker right now?” Republican political consultant Bill O’Reilly said. “If I were a potential candidate running for the speakership, Elise Stefanik is the first person I would want on my side,” former Rep. John Sweeney said.
There is a belief in some quarters of the party that Stefanik could emerge as one of the GOP’s chief fundraisers since she’s so far been left unscathed by the speakership battle. She’s already started to play a critical role helping vulnerable Republicans in the New York City suburbs win second terms — which would go a long way toward saving the party’s narrow majority in the process.
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