Elise Stefanik unveils new PAC as New York governor's race buzz grows

House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is unveiling a caller governmental fundraising instrumentality Wednesday arsenic she continues to make buzz arsenic a imaginable 2026 New York gubernatorial candidate.

Stefanik is eyeing a imaginable bid for the governor's mansion successful Albany. She told a Republican assemblage successful Staten Island Monday she was "strongly considering" entering the race.

Her caller authorities governmental enactment committee, Save New York, appears aimed astatine further cementing her presumption arsenic a heavyweight successful Empire State GOP politics.

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House GOP Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik is considering a tally for New York politician with existent Gov. Kathy Hochul expected to tally again. (Getty Images)

"Kathy Hochul is the worst bovernor successful America, and she is starring a failed Democrat Party. After years of failed single-party Democrat regularisation successful New York, it has ne'er been much wide that we request strong, commonsense Republican enactment successful New York," Stefanik said successful a statement.

She said Save New York "will absorption connected supporting Republican candidates and campaigns successful section elections this November to physique the groundwork for 2026."

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"I americium arrogant of the beardown enactment my governmental squad has developed implicit the past decennary owed to the generous enactment from New York voters and donors who person built our governmental apparatus into a fundraising and governmental juggernaut to present policies that payment hardworking New York families," Stefanik said.

Stefanik is simply a cardinal Trump ally. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

The New York Republican has been a cardinal state to President Donald Trump since his archetypal word successful the White House.

Trump had appointed her ambassador to the United Nations successful his 2nd term, and she was poised to sail done the confirmation process earlier concerns astir the House GOP's razor-thin bulk forced Stefanik to bow out of contention.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appointed Stefanik chairwoman of House GOP Leadership aft she gave up her relation arsenic House GOP Conference seat for the Trump administration.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., returned Stefanik to the enactment array aft her Trump medication relation fell through. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In the House, she's been a person connected issues similar antisemitism connected assemblage campuses, playing a cardinal relation successful Republicans' probe of anti-Israel protests connected Ivy League campuses.

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Stefanik is 1 of 2 House Republicans considering a bid for New York governor.

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., 1 of 3 House GOP lawmakers representing districts erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris won successful 2024, has openly toyed with his ain gubernatorial effort.

Trump precocious endorsed Lawler for re-election successful his House district.