The Ed Cox-led Republican Celebration in New York State is just like the gang that would not shoot straight. First, there was the nonsensical George Santos ouster, during which a cadre of disgruntled Republican congressmen, together with Nick LaLota and Mike Lawler, backed by state social gathering leaders, led the hassle to expel the previous Congressman from NY-03, as a result of, at backside, they have been jealous of his reputation among the many MAGA grassroots – and extraordinary success story – relative to their very own.
This totally braindead maneuver pressured a particular election, during which the Democratic candidate, Tom Suozzi, simply received again his seat. The State Celebration nominated an unknown, extremely incompetent politician by the title of Mazi Pilip, who was a registered Democrat and, even worse, detached to President Trump. Pilip, seemingly blind to the weaponized justice system occurring in her personal yard with the political prosecution of President Trump by bad-faith actors like Letitia James and Alvin Bragg, blithely opined that “nobody is above the law” – maybe probably the most tone-deaf assertion a Republican candidate from New York might presumably make.
Fairly than denounce the witch-hunt in daring and emphatic phrases – in spite of everything, the state is threatening the company dying penalty towards The Trump Group by penalizing him and his grownup sons of near half a billion {dollars} in fines – with over $100,000 of further accrued “curiosity” every single day the President fails to place up the cash – for a very victimless crime. With Letitia James’ blessing, Choose Engoron additionally assigned an “impartial monitor” (who occurs to be a Trump-hating, Clinton appointed choose, Barbara Jones) to “oversee” the President’s enterprise exercise within the state for the following 5 years. That is pure communism; even when one believed, wrongly, that President Trump had dedicated a criminal offense, and that the prosecution towards him had no political significance in any way, the punishment leveled towards him – actually to sap him dry of all money reserves – is grossly disproportionate to the alleged fraud, an extreme high-quality squarely in violation of the Eighth Modification.
After Mazi’s marketing campaign went down in flames, one would suppose that with a bit introspective self-reflection, the Celebration would adapt to the feelings of their constituents and eventually embrace Donald Trump wholeheartedly. In spite of everything, her defeat not solely simply value the New York Republican delegation a seat in Congress, however moreover, it narrowed the Republicans’ razor-thin majority within the Home of Representatives to a measly two seats. The foolishness of New York Republicans could properly value the GOP management over the Home in November, even with President Trump’s return on the high of the ticket.
The blame for this may be squarely positioned on Ed Cox and his lackeys within the Home of Representatives – the Trump holdouts and confirmed losers, just like the aforementioned Nick LaLota (NY-01), Anthony D’Esposito (NY-04), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02) – and a number of other others, who stubbornly refuse to embrace Trump and his insurance policies, repeatedly spurning his constituents as a result of their Cox-sponsored donors are bedfellows with globalists, and reportedly additionally, via the Cox community, have hyperlinks to the Soros household and the Chinese language Communist Celebration, amongst different left wing causes and teams. These teams successfully function managed or paid opposition, providing the pretext of bipartisanship for New York’s Republican institution, the suitable hand of the Uniparty.
And but, Cox refused — and nonetheless refuses — to be taught his lesson. Fewer than two weeks after the Pilip debacle when it grew to become time to decide on a senate candidate, Cox threw all his political and monetary capital weight what was, in impact, one other Democrat (given how a lot he has donated to them) – and Trump hater, in Mike Sapraicone. Sapraicone was chosen by a closed-door “conference” in upstate New York attended by not more than 250 state committee leaders, all of whom have been strong-armed by a handful of social gathering bosses into backing their handpicked candidate. The explanations the social gathering leaders – significantly in probably the most highly effective counties, similar to Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester – favored Sapraicone are apparent: he hates Trump and has described the main presidential candidate as a “bully” with an enormous ego. He has equally lodged aspersions towards key Trump allies, together with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whom Sapraicone additionally reportedly known as “owned” and “corrupt” at a current personal dinner in Westchester.
Sapraicone has donated tens of 1000’s of {dollars} in simply the previous couple of years to a number of the worst Democrat politicians in New York, like Letitia James, Andrew Cuomo, and Tom Suozzi, who actually have blood on their fingers for all of the crime their insurance policies have ushered in and deaths their disastrous lockdowns have brought on – instantly resulting in the very best murder charges the state has witnessed in years, additional including to a catastrophic unlawful migrant disaster that has pushed companies out in droves. New York Democrats have additionally promoted an unprecedented assault on constitutional rights and the rule of regulation, enabling a two-tiered system of justice to enter into overdrive that has led to the political persecution of Donald Trump, their most important political opponent.
As New York is being run to the bottom by incompetent, corrupt, and certainly, evil, Democrats – the Republican Celebration, which needs to be nominating fearsome fighters who embrace President Trump’s successful recipe of placing America First over the agenda of the Uniparty and globalists, has confirmed fully ineffective. Fairly than put their finest foot ahead, New York Republican leaders stay caught of their previous methods, refusing to alter with the occasions by embracing insurance policies similar to limiting immigration, election integrity, regulation and order, ending the weaponized system of justice, standing up without spending a dime speech, and supporting financial nationalism that favors tax cuts and different incentives for American companies, whereas closing our doorways to China and different overseas opponents.
There’s a cause George Santos, who swung a seat that voted practically ten factors in favor of Biden, to just about ten factors in favor of Santos: and that was due to his boldness to face for the rules of America First, together with his unapologetic help for President Trump and his agenda of putting America’s pursuits over that of the Ukraine, Taiwan, Mexico, China, or the Center East. That is additionally why Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who endorsed President Trump way back in November of 2022, continues to be probably the most profitable (and highly effective) member of the New York State Republican delegation – by far. As an alternative of operating away from Donald Trump, as a lot of her colleagues did (a few of whom have both nonetheless not endorsed President Trump, or solely did so on the eleventh hour – too little, too late), Stefanik threw her weight behind Trump out of the gate, turning into one in all his most prolific fundraisers, and because of this has ascended all the way in which to the third most powerful Republican, not solely in New York, however in your complete Home.
MAGA can be, emphatically, the explanation why Lee Zeldin carried out in addition to he did within the 2022 gubernatorial race, during which he misplaced by lower than ten factors to Kathy Hochul, one of many strongest showings for a Republican in a statewide workplace race in a long time. The explanation for Zeldin’s success is hardly as a result of a charismatic persona or world-renown mind (he’s poor in each classes): however moderately, he learn the tea leaves and understood that his social gathering was in a pro-Trump temper. If Zeldin had leaned into Trump much more, and never reportedly informed company donors behind closed doorways that “I by no means mentioned the outcomes of the 2020 election have been illegitimate,” he may need truly received his extremely winnable race towards one of the unpopular governors within the nation.
And but, moderately than heed the teachings of Santos, Stefanik, and to a lesser extent, Zeldin, Cox and his lackeys have performed simply the other – doubling down within the course of liberalizing their social gathering, by embracing such initiatives as legal justice reform or taking part in the id politics card. Liberalism is mainly useless and gone in America: moderately than open borders, mass migration, and woke insurance policies, People repeatedly spurn these insurance policies – and as an alternative embrace a crackdown on all of them, recognizing them as decadent, outmoded, and essentially anti-American.
If Cox et al. have been truly sensible, he and his cronies would undertake Trump’s rhetoric – decry the two-tiered justice system which punishes People for talking their minds or exercising their constitutional rights, similar to to assemble or interact in self-defense, whereas each unlawful, violent felon, and their mom, will get off scot free. Working example: Nassau County Govt, Joe Cairo, one in all Cox’s right-hand-men. Cairo lately attributed Pilip’s loss – to not being an incompetent and silly candidate, which she was – however to the truth that “Lengthy Island isn’t but prepared for a black girl” (though they elected George Santos, a Latino who was additionally the primary overtly homosexual Republican ever elected to Congress, by overwhelming margins).
No line higher encapsulates simply how out of contact Cox and his colleagues are than that.
The underside line is id politics mustn’t matter: competence and advantage do – which, for the needs of New York Republican candidates, all the time equates to supporting Donald Trump (and having a longstanding historical past of doing so), full cease. On this cycle, the candidates who’ve embraced President Trump and the MAGA motion he represents – together with proclaiming his place on the illegitimacy of the 2020 election – are certain to carry out a lot better than those that run for the hills, following Cox’s chosen lapdogs within the Home: the LaLota’s, Garbarino’s, and Lawler’s of the delegation.
To this point on this race, two candidates – Cara Castronuova and Josh Eisen – have run circles round Sapraicone’s monitor report on the problems that matter most, and it isn’t even shut. Whereas Sapraicone fingers out an increasing number of cash to those that would bankrupt his enterprise and put him behind bars if it have been as much as them in a pathetic try to curry favor, Castronuova and Eisen have stood with President Trump via thick and skinny, believing in him each step of the way in which – even within the darkest hour, similar to January 6th, 2021 and its speedy aftermath, when it was inconceivable to many Republicans, besides true believers, that President Trump would ever once more be positioned to retake the White Home, a lot as he’s now.
For these causes, President Trump has reportedly observed the corruption within the New York State GOP. The forty fifth President reportedly convened a private meeting with Cara Castronuova, who positioned in a formidable second place end finally month’s Binghamton conference, regardless of having a shoestring price range and a motley marketing campaign staff, in Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday to debate the state of affairs of the New York Republican Celebration. This, regardless of his earlier endorsement of Sapraicone, which has been contested by some of the most pro-Trump people in New York, and throughout the country, together with Mayor Giuliani, Roger Stone, 2022 Gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Giuliani, Sid Rosenberg, former Congressman Peter King, NYYRC President, Gavin Wax, Laura Loomer, and yours actually.
It’s unlucky that Ed Cox and his crew are so incompetent and out of contact with their voters, and President Trump, particularly in a pivotal election 12 months, the place the 45th President is now polling inside single digits of Biden within the Empire State (a lead that could be much higher with the enthusiastic cooperation of Party leadership). Even when Trump doesn’t win the state outright, a fiercely pro-Trump candidate paired with him on the poll, like Castronuova, could properly prevail – it could be a tragedy to squander this remaining alternative with President Trump’s title on the high of the poll, particularly when his title is paired with a mediocre no-name like Sapraicone, who doesn’t perceive the political second, and clearly doesn’t have what it takes to win this 12 months (or any 12 months for that matter).
A Higher, Profitable Technique
If New York’s GOP have been actually invested in successful, not roleplaying as managed opposition, here’s what they’d do: they’d first pressure Sapraicone to drop out of the race. This could occur no matter whether or not or not President Trump rescinds his endorsement, which he has done with other candidates, similar to Mo Brooks, who’ve confirmed insufficiently loyal to him and the MAGA motion.
Subsequent, they need to throw their assets, time, and power behind Castronuova or Eisen – no holds barred. Whoever doesn’t get tapped by the social gathering because the Senate candidate needs to be the Celebration-backed candidate to retake NY-03, George Santos’ previous seat, on this November’s election towards Tom Suozzi. As a result of they’re each deserving (and affordable) folks, a truce needs to be made between Castronuova and Eisen. The motion may be a lot stronger, they usually can go a lot additional in conducting their mutual objective to problem the regnant, incompetent Cox-led State GOP, by uniting collectively.
They might be well-advised to ally with different pro-Trump rebel candidates, difficult the RINO incumbents, significantly on Lengthy Island, who’re as incompetent as they’re silly, shopping for the anti-Trump, pro-Cox kool-aid hook, line, and sinker. If Santos actually mounts a run towards the troglodyte LaLota in NY-01, he ought to have Eisen and Castronuova’s help – and Santos ought to help them in return, of their shared dedication to remake the Celebration within the picture and likeness of Donald John Trump.
Furthermore, two of probably the most highly effective Republicans within the state – Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin – ought to determine the place they stand and endorse the MAGA insurgents who’ve taken to job Ed Cox’s hegemony. It’s clear that the social gathering in New York is shifting quickly within the pro-Trump, MAGA course – the dinosaurs like Cox, Cairo, and Jesse Garcia in Suffolk County who’re desperately clinging onto the previous, unsuccessful methods will quickly have their reckoning. Below their tenure, New York State has descended from top-of-the-line states within the Union to one of many worst, throughout each metric: crime, value of dwelling, high quality of life, high quality of schooling, corruption, election integrity, you title it.
It’s right here that the Biden DOJ has been in a position to most efficiently weaponize the justice system and switch it towards President Trump. To this point, each single Republican in elected workplace in New York – federal, state, and native – have been stone-cold silent concerning the egregious abuses of energy from Letitia James’ workplace, and Arthur Engoron’s courtroom. To this point, solely Stefanik has filed an ethics complaint against Letitia James, an admirable first step for positive, however one that ought to have had the common help of your complete Celebration — federal and state lawmakers, in addition to county chairpersons.
If Cox weren’t bedfellows with the Democrats and Kirsten Gillibrand, he would have supported a party-wide condemnation towards the weaponized system of justice towards Donald Trump now occurring in his residence state. He would have demanded each Republican within the New York State delegation to comply with Stefanik’s lead in lodging a authorized and media marketing campaign towards James, Bragg, Engoron, and Hochul, utilizing each device within the chest to place an finish to this charade for good. The one cause why the Democrats in New York have gotten away with operating roughshod across the Structure and rule of regulation is as a result of the Republican opposition sits on their fingers and does completely nothing, full cease.
Many individuals are fast to attribute this to malice, or a conspiracy involving the Uniparty. However because the saying goes, “by no means attribute to malice that which is sufficiently defined by stupidity.” New York, below Cox’s rule, has mainly quashed entrepreneurship of all types, however significantly of the Donald Trump selection, that in yesteryear constructed up this state from the bottom and made New York Metropolis into the main metropolis not solely of the US, however of the world.
Right this moment, our Republicans care extra about elevating incompetent folks to positions of authority, like James and Bragg, out of fealty to BLM and woke actions, in order that they don’t seem to be seen as “racist” by their Democratic betters. Maybe Cox actually believes in Woke’s catechism, during which case he’s patently unqualified to be a standardbear for the Republican Celebration, that’s purported to, no less than on paper, symbolize the opposition to Left-wing absurdity.
Cox is presently in his second stint as New York State GOP chairman, having beforehand served from 2009-2019 after stepping apart for a quick, four-year interregnum. His earlier stint too was mired by accusations of incompetence and a reluctance to hold out his duties. For instance, according to a 2010 article for the NY Daily News, Cox then was hit with accusations that he was not placing his finest foot ahead by nominating top-quality candidates towards Kirsten Gillibrand, who had solely been lately elected to the Senate. Now, fourteen years later, historical past has vindicated these accusations: Gillibrand stays in energy, secure as ever, whereas Cox continues to appoint bottom-of-the-barrel candidates like anti-Trump Sapraicone, who has completely no shot of successful towards the formidable Democratic incumbent.
These details would lend additional credence to final week’s revelations, reported by The Gateway Pundit and different retailers, that Cox is definitely aiding and abetting Gillibrand by intentionally placing up the worst potential candidates as a result of he has a monetary stake in Gillibrand’s long-term success. Proof for this concept is present in the truth that Cox is a board member of the corporate “League of Conservation Voters,” a far-left environmental group that promotes harmful insurance policies like ESG, the Green New Deal, and wind turbines, and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans and affiliated PACs – together with, you guessed it, to Sapraicone’s opponent, Kirsten Gillibrand!
So, whether or not he’s animated by an anti-Trump ideology, a enterprise curiosity, or pure laziness, Cox has each cause to make sure the worst potential candidates are nominated repeatedly for statewide races, to make sure the Democrats in management – to whom his companies help with tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} of political donations – keep in energy. That might clarify Sapraicone, and previous to him, Mazi Pilip. It could additionally, oddly sufficient, clarify Santos, who was tapped the candidate within the NY-03 race by Cox acolyte, Nassau County GOP chair Joseph Cairo, maybe considering that Santos, an unknown on the time, who had previously lost in 2020 by a 13-point wallop to Suozzi, could be a surefire loser, one who would protect the Democratic-led established order. When Santos slipped via the cracks, shocked the world, and truly received, it despatched your complete State Celebration into an anxious frenzy: accordingly, they were quick to mobilize nearly their all House Republican members (particularly those closest to Cox, Cairo, and Garcia), save Stefanik, to expel Santos, irrespective of the devastating political value to the general Home majority.
Certainly, with Santos’ menace looming – Santos announced on the night of the State of the Union address that he was planning to primary Nick LaLota in NY-01 – Suffolk County’s Chairman, Jesse Garcia, went out of his strategy to subject a preemptive statement to denounce Santos’ latest bid, realizing full properly that Santos’ return to Congress could possibly be a deadly blow to the Cox-led regime that has introduced the Empire State to near-ruin.
Cox, in his earlier stint as State Celebration Chair, was additionally hit with accusations that he merely didn’t need the job, and for that cause, put scarcely any effort into vetting candidates for competence and electability. In at present’s phrases, that may imply candidates who’re shamelessly America First and supportive of Donald John Trump. Sarcastically, if he have been making a concerted effort at that, he could be deciding on for extra Santos-like candidates, moderately than operating in the wrong way by selecting IDF fighters married to Ukrainians who could barely speak English, or bigtime Democratic donors who act and speak like buffoons in public.
In 2017, The Day by day Beast reported that properly over a decade in the past, Republican Celebration leaders have been calling for Cox’s resignation – labeling his tenure as “pathetically ineffectual” and the State Celebration a “unhappy joke.” The report particulars how Cox pushed via his son, Chris Cox, to run a longshot congressional bid, who turned out, unsurprisingly, to be an ineffective candidate (the apple doesn’t fall removed from the tree). His shedding effort solely additional solidified the Democratic hegemony over the state.
The report additionally recounts Cox’s then-struggles to courtroom high quality Republicans to take down Democratic bigwigs like Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Andrew Cuomo – all of whom stay family names properly over a decade later, and two of three of whom nonetheless stay in energy, their positions as safe as ever due to the identical previous narrative, as true at present because it was then.
So, clearly, Cox’s newest gambit is nothing new: he not solely doesn’t know the right way to win, as confirmed by his moribund monitor report, however he actively prefers shedding – for which, to him, there’s a political and monetary upside. Cox earnings handsomely off the contributions that fill the coffers of his environmental firm, by and enormous from Democratic or left-leaning donors, whereas retaining his soft job as chairman of the “managed opposition” – during which the one job requirement is to do completely nothing. (Really, examine that, to do nothing besides lose key elections and nominate the worst candidates you may presumably fathom.)
In the meantime, New York State continues down a speedy managed decline, with productive residents fleeing the state month by month, changed by third world migrants who occupy faculties, take up essential assets that ought to in any other case be used in direction of New York’s mounting homelessness disaster, and drain the economic system – shifting the prices upon the dwindling pool of middle-class taxpayers, from whom Kathy Hochul and Letitia James revenue, to pursue their self-interested political witch-hunts.
Name To Motion
New York is a racket, and Ed Cox and his minions are on the entrance and middle of it.
Readers, please contemplate CALLING Ed Cox’s workplace and DEMAND that he throw his help and assets behind true America First, Trump supporting candidates for federal, state, and native workplace – NOT imposters and frauds like Mike Sapraicone, Mazi Pilip, or any of the RINOs who presently symbolize Lengthy Island and downstate New York in Congress.
Ed Cox’s workplace quantity: (518) 462-2601, and electronic mail: [email protected].
Nassau GOP Chairman, Joe Cairo’s workplace quantity: 516-334-5800, and electronic mail: [email protected].
Suffolk GOP Chairman, Jesse Garcia’s workplace quantity: 631-320-1900, and electronic mail: [email protected].