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Sunday, October 27th, 2024
New York, NY – In case you missed it, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik joined ABC News Live to discuss President Trump’s historic inroads in New York State, GOP efforts to ensure a free and fair election, and previewing President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. |
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View highlights from the interview below. On President Trump’s Historic Inroads in New York State: “Well, President Trump is a New Yorker, and despite the fact that he lives in Florida, he is popular among New York. And he is going to be a President for all Americans. You can see the historic support. In less than 3 hours, every ticket was sold to this Madison Square Garden. Kamala Harris, no matter how much time you give her, she would never be able to fill up an arena like this. And President Trump has been a visionary in growing today’s Republican Party. Look at the historic support among African American voters, Hispanic voters, Jewish voters, working class voters, voters that were previously registered as Democrats who are voting for this America First movement led by President Trump. So it’s a historic day. And as you will remember, it was New York that flipped five seats that delivered the House Republican Majority. We have made inroads in the state, and President Trump has led that effort. So I think we’re going to have some surprises on election night when we see him over perform in New York.” On Women Supporting and Thriving Under President Trump: “Well, I am one of the National Chairs of Women for Trump. And we’ve tried to focus on his tremendous record when it came to opportunity for women. If you look at President Trump’s economy, you had more women in the workforce than ever before. You had the highest wage and salary increase, a pay raise for working women across this country. You had childcare that was affordable. And border security, safety issues, those are women’s issues as well. President Trump is also in line with the vast majority of women across the country when he says that the state should decide on the issue of abortion. So we have an opportunity in this closing argument, and it’s Kamala Harris’ campaign that’s flailing. While she may be winning certain demographics, she is losing demographics that the Democrat Party has relied on and has felt entitled for far too long.” On Ensuring Free and Fair Elections: “We need election integrity in this country. If we don’t have fair and constitutional elections, then we lose our country. I stand by my Floor speech that I gave in January of 2021, standing up for the Constitution, for the rule of law. And you incorrectly pointed out that court cases ruled. They did not rule. In most cases, they did not even hear those cases out. So that is a false accusation from you. The President has been correct in standing up for election integrity. And as long as this election is constitutional and we protect the ballot box, of course I will stand up and support secure elections. But the same question is not posed to Democrats. You already have Democrats saying and sowing doubt on the integrity of this election because they see the flooding of the polls. So you can’t ask one party and not the other. And I will remind you, every Republican President since 1980, there have Democrat Members of Congress who challenged the election integrity, and then the media didn’t say anything. It’s only Republicans that they focus. We will proudly stand up for constitutional elections. But I think President Trump is going to win by such a margin that this will be called on Election Night. I think not only is he going to win the Electoral College, but the popular vote as well which is why it’s so important to turn out the vote. Every vote is going to matter.” … “And they didn’t hear those cases, not that they ruled against his favor. They didn’t hear those cases.” … “It is a choice not to hear those cases.” … “But I’m not going to let you leave it at that. In those cases, those courts chose not to hear those cases. We stand by standing up for election integrity. That’s our responsibility as Members of Congress, and the American people agree with us.” … “We are focused on making sure that we have a secure, constitutional election. That means states abiding by their laws on the books passed by the Legislature, not rewriting those laws. That’s why you’re seeing us standing up in key states to make sure that they’re abiding by those laws. Even in New York State, I mean, there have been egregious overreaches by Democrats when they tried to allow illegals to vote in municipal elections. That was a successful litigation that I led with the New York Republican Party not allowing this. So these are very serious issues. And President Trump is right to stand up for election integrity.” On Failures of This Administration: “Absolutely, and at every opportunity, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have failed to stand with Israel. Take the U.S. military aid that is very important for Israel at this particular time as they are under existential threat. This is an Administration under Joe Biden and Kamala who slow walked that military support getting to Israel. Compare that with President Trump: you had peace and stability in the region and the greatest breakthrough for normalization between Israel and Arab countries with the Abraham Accords. The other piece related to the college campuses. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ Department of Education has refused to investigate these universities for their failure to protect Jewish students. On day one, President Trump is going to make sure we enforce civil rights protections for Jewish students and hold these universities accountable.” On Securing Border: “He has talked about securing our borders and making sure that we do not have terrorist threats which this Administration, under Kamala Harris, has allowed individuals on the terrorist watchlist, including in my district, to illegally cross our borders. So if you’re referencing President Trump’s border security, which the majority of the American people support, I certainly support his border security policies which is why we voted for the Secure The Border Act.” |
