NY-21: Trump defender's fame rockets; so does her opponent's fundraising

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS NOVEMBER 18, 2019 / 2:24 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Trump defender's fame rockets; so does her opponent's fundraising

Patricia Zengerle, Susan Cornwell
3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump declared “a star is born” after Republican Representative Elise Stefanik strongly defended him during last week’s impeachment hearings in Congress. But someone else also got a boost from Stefanik’s new fame: her Democratic election opponent.

Tedra Cobb, a former county legislator who is hoping to win Stefanik’s House of Representatives seat next year, said on Twitter on Sunday evening that she raised $1 million in two days after Stefanik’s high-profile performance in the hearings.

Stefanik, 35, a three-term congresswoman, was one of the sharpest questioners of witness Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and other diplomats who testified last week. Stefanik also tangled repeatedly with the committee’s Democratic chairman, Representative Adam Schiff.

The hearings raised Stefanik’s national profile. “A new Republican Star is born. Great going @EliseStefanik!” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

But the proceedings also motivated Stefanik’s opponents to take to social media to boost Cobb.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-stefanik/trump-defenders-fame-rockets-so-does-her-opponents-fundraising-idUSKBN1XS2BX

[catbyte]

1. No kidding. She went from a little over 6K Twitter followers on Thursday to over 252K by Saturday.

And Stefanik keeps bragging about herself on Twitter. She really is a dumbass. Sad!

[eilen]

2. Stefanik is a carpetbagger. Not from Northern NY.

Her family had a vacation home there.

[Raftergirl]

7. She

grew up in Albany. Her official residence is in her district now. Lots of people from the Cao District have 2nd homes in the Adirondacks.

[Historic NY]

3. District went for Clinton, Gore, Kerry & Obama...

in the past.

[PA Democrat]

5. Interesting. The article also says she has portrayed herself as a "moderate"

Until emerging last week as a vociferous defender of Trump, Stefanik had been known as a moderate. She called Trump’s decision to withdraw from the international Paris agreement on climate change a “mistake” and criticized his 2017 travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-stefanik/trump-defenders-fame-rockets-so-does-her-opponents-fundraising-idUSKBN1XS2BX

Her district might not care for her new "full Trump" stance.

[Raftergirl]

6. Not the same district.

The old 21st (which is now the 20th) voted D. That’s the Capital District and completely different than the 21st now.

[Progressive Jones]

4. Trump's Kiss of Death has now been planted on Stefanik. nt