FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, October 17, 2025
Saratoga N.Y., – Today, House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik joined Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss soaring costs for struggling taxpayers, jihadist terrorist sympathizer Commie Mamdani, and the Worst Governor in America Kathy Hochul.
You can watch the interview in full HERE!
View highlights from Chairwoman Stefanik’s interview:
Sean Hannity Intro:
This all comes as Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is rising in the polls in New York’s gubernatorial race, currently just five points behind Hochul, but when voters learn that Hochul endorsed Mamdani, Stefanik wins by about a point.
On Single Party Rule Ruining New York:
Chairwoman Stefanik: In single-party Democrat ruled states, like New Jersey, like New York, the people of those states have felt the catastrophic policies, whether it’s the sky-high taxes or whether it’s the criminals first, illegals first, and legal residents last, like in the state of New York. Consistently, Kathy Hochul has put violent criminals first, illegals first, anti-Semites first, and New Yorkers last. So we’re watching the New Jersey race very closely. I strongly support Jack Ciattarelli. He can win. We strongly support Winsome-Sears in that Virginia race. She can win as well.
On Commie Mamdani Refusing to Endorse Kathy Hochul:
Chairwoman Stefanik: Kathy Hochul has no support. That is why she bent the knee to the anti-Semite Communist Zohran Mamdani, and yet he didn’t return the favor and refused to endorse her. Andrew Cuomo, who picked Kathy Hochul as his Lieutenant Governor, he wouldn’t endorse her either.
On New York State’s Affordability Crisis:
Chairwoman Stefanik: We’re the most unaffordable state in the nation. The highest taxes. We have skyrocketing crime because of these Defund the Police Democrats, led by Kathy Hochul, and of course even led more by Zohran Mamdani, who is leading in this New York City Mayor’s race. So this is not just Republicans we’re hearing from, it’s Democrats as well…People are up in arms, including Democrats in New York City, that we’re about to have a Defund the Police, abolish private property, someone who wants to legalize prostitution, who is an anti-Semite, who does not believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, who has embraced “globalize the intifada,” and Kathy Hochul has lifted him up by endorsing him. So that’s how we’re going to win. We’re going to lower taxes in New York, we’re going to support the police, we’re going to Save our great State.
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