New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and self-described “ultra-MAGA” congresswoman, has spent the past decade rising through the GOP ranks in Congress. Now, she’s turning her sights to the governor’s mansion in Albany.

Stefanik announced her campaign on Friday with a video attacking Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state’s high cost of living and support for New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic-socialist.

“Kathy Hochul made New York the most unaffordable state in the nation, crushing families with sky-high taxes, unaffordable rent, soaring energy costs and record-high grocery bills, and cozied up to an anti-police, tax-hiking, anti-semitic communist,” a narrator says in the video.

"Elise Stefanik will clean up Kathy Hochul's cat

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