Emily Jashinsky

And we have to guard those definitions jealously, whether it's Republicans abusing them, weaponizing them for politics, or Democrats weaponizing them for politics, which is what most of the last 10 years was.

Democrats weaponizing them cynically for political purposes because their activist base wanted them to.

And, you know,

Elise Stefanik, I think, realized that this was not going to be a winning cycle.

I think that's pretty obvious.

I don't think she wants to have the stench of loss on her at this point in her career.

She actually ducked out of the house.

She said she wanted to spend more time with her family.

All of those things are fair.

She should be jaded.

She had a rough year.

She's supposed to be UN ambassador.

That got yanked.

Then she was not really given her spot back in leadership.

She was kind of given a spot back in leadership, but

uh ended up falling down the rungs of the ladder after going from u.n ambassador uh and was about to run a losing gubernatorial campaign my sense is that trump world is not really fond of stefanik um and maybe that'll change i mean he put out a nice statement uh about her after she dropped out of the race but uh it's it's an uphill battle to obviously win a gubernatorial election in new york let alone when a lot of your strategy was fear-mongering about

And the president, which, by the way, like on economic stuff, I think is totally valid.

But then you have the president sort of flanked by him in the Oval Office saying they share a lot of ideas.

That was overall, I think, the dagger in the Stefanik Senate and the Stefanik gubernatorial campaigns.

So now we can play the music.