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Margaret Sullivan

Elise Stefanik wants to be Trump’s running mate. That’s unfortunate

Representative Elise Stefanik
‘It sure is a classy gang that Stefanik hopes to help lead. Is she up to the task?’ Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

Elise Stefanik is having a moment. If she were a song on the Billboard chart, she’d have a bullet next to her name to show the speed of her trajectory.

In recent weeks, the New York congresswoman has claimed credit for the demise of two major university presidents (those at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania), after she led the bullying about campus antisemitism during a congressional hearing.

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