Kirsten Gillibrand, the far-left Democrat who’s New York’s junior senator, is up for re-election this 12 months. Beneath her tenure, the state has gotten significantly worse: it at present suffers from record-setting inflation, rising crime and murder charges, and an unmanageable unlawful migrant disaster that might properly be the straw that breaks New York Metropolis’s again. Simply this previous week, Mayor Eric Adams announced an initiative to pay $53 million of NYC taxpayer money to fund the lifestyle habits – together with accommodating dietary preferences – of illegals, who’ve successfully overtaken the town, as metropolis residents battle to make primary hire funds whereas extra native born New Yorkers than ever at present languish in homelessness.
And these mounting issues don’t even start to issue within the weaponization of the state justice system – which, appearing in tandem with the Biden regime’s Division of Justice — has systematically focused President Trump and a few of his most outspoken supporters nonetheless residing behind enemy strains. The heavy hand of the state’s draconian judiciary has punished those that have exercised and defended basic constitutional rights, in addition to the MAGA motion extra broadly.
Given this historic disaster, one would assume it will be a no brainer to appoint a candidate for the senate seat who finest encapsulated the values of MAGA and stood unwaveringly behind Donald Trump all through his political persecution. This expectation is fortified by the catastrophe that was final week’s complete embarrassment in New York’s third congressional district, the place the handpicked candidate of the Republican State Committee, Mazi Pilip, who did not even care to change her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican before entering the race, unsurprisingly misplaced to Tom Suozzi, the final Democrat to occupy that seat, by nearly ten points.
No matter his faults, it’s indeniable that former Congressman George Santos was steadfastly devoted to President Trump. Santos not solely walked the stroll however talked the discuss: he boasted the most America First voting record of any member of Congress from New York’s Republican delegation in, fairly actually, a long time.
Santos, who impressively flipped a Biden +8.2 district into a R+7.5, a nearly sixteen-point swing in just two years, rigged elections included, ought to set the mannequin for different Republican candidates operating statewide. That’s what frequent sense would dictate.
However the New York State Republican Occasion, led by two Trump haters, state committee chairman, Ed Cox, and Nassau County chairman, Joseph Cairo, may have none of that. Moderately than undertake the profitable technique, they routinely do the very reverse — and are poised to take action but once more.
First, they inspired different RINO New York congressmen, corresponding to Rep. Anthony D’Esposito and Rep. Mike Lawler (neither of whom have endorsed President Trump to date), to cooperate with absolutely the worst of Home Democratic management, corresponding to Hakeem Jeffries, to prepared the ground to expel Santos. The Republican Occasion is colloquially often called The Silly Occasion since they habitually eat their very own – and Cox, Cairo, and the vast majority of the New York Republican delegation — personify that notion to a tee.
They therefore stand in sharp distinction with their Democratic friends, who embody inside their ranks such morbidly corrupt politicians as Sen. Bob Menendez, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Eric Swalwell. Regardless of how reprehensible the above lawmakers’ moral and ethical failings, nevertheless, Democrats at all times defend their fellow members – which within the overwhelming scheme of issues make what Santos did appear extremely tame, even harmless.
As a result of the Republican Occasion fails to be taught the basic rule of politics – particularly, to reward associates and punish enemies – they continually shoot themselves within the ft, permitting their Democratic betters to run circles round them.
The success of Santos’ ouster is final telltale of the GOP’s inherent weak spot provided that 1) Santos has but to be convicted of a criminal offense in a courtroom of regulation; and a pair of) no matter that truth, the correct treatment for congressional misconduct in a democratic system, save distinctive instances of criminality (a degree of which not one of the allegations surrounding George Santos even comes near assembly), is just not expulsion, however electioneering: let the voters determine!
Particularly these days, when the justice system is so weaponized by radical brokers who freely perform the marching orders of the Biden regime’s DOJ – not simply towards President Trump, who exemplifies the paradigmatic case, however towards dad and mom who refuse to permit their schoolchildren to be indoctrinated by woke propaganda – and legions of different Individuals who peacefully demonstrated on Capitol grounds – one would assume Republican lawmakers would now be far much less deferential to accusations lodged towards their very own – and be significantly skeptical of allegations lodged towards these with a historical past of boldly standing alongside President Trump.
However Republicans again and again refuse to know the magnitude of our political disaster. Occasion leaders like Cox and Cairo, aided by an equally helpless, Ronna McDaniel-led RNC, completely refuse to change into extra strategically combative in defending their very own. As a consequence of this recalcitrance to adapt — which in equal components is attributed to incompetence, laziness, and being sellouts — Republicans are now on the cusp of losing their razor thin House majority, which has been decreased from seven to 6, with Suozzi’s latest victory over Mazi.
This, the genius of Republicans in New York State, who improvidently wasted upwards of ten million dollars on a nonviable candidate in Pilip, so clearly flawed in each method conceivable, when all of this might have been averted by permitting Santos to complete his time period and let his constituents decide his destiny by way of the conventional constitutional course of. This answer would have prevented valuable time and assets being expended on Pilip’s long-shot candidacy.
The clock is quickly ticking. November’s presidential election is now fewer than ten months away. A a lot, a lot wiser use of their time and power would in fact be on registering voters and vetting for Trump-aligned candidates throughout the board: native, state, and federal workplace. And if New York Republicans had been sensible and competent, this could naturally be their focus.
Moderately than dropping one other seat, the GOP majority within the Home would – if it stood its floor and silenced these petulant voices like D’Esposito and Lawler who pushed for Santos’ ouster (and even selected to show the weapons on them for his or her deliberate and wasteful sabotage) – have a stronger cushion getting into the 2024 basic election. And regardless of his shortcomings, Santos was aligned with President Trump on nearly each challenge that issues: the border, crime, the economic system, commerce, opposition to reckless spending on endlessly wars.
The incompetence of the Republican Occasion in New York State is at an order of magnitude that boggles the thoughts. The State GOP clearly prefers to lose, slightly than win and thus be given precise accountability, the place they will now not grift as – what’s for all intents and functions – paid opposition towards the Democratic machine that runs New York – a machine that features Schumer, Gillibrand, Adams, James, Jeffries, Ocasio-Cortez, and Alvin Bragg – that has dealt the Empire State maybe a deadly blow.
Maybe Cox and Cairo are masochists. After having beclowned themselves with the Mazi Pilip debacle, only one week later they’re poised for a repeat. It in all probability aggravates Republican state leaders that they even should nominate a candidate each six years for the senate within the first place. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Republican leaders from all 62 counties in New York state will collect on Thursday to pick out a candidate to run towards Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
The most effective candidate is clearly The Gateway Pundit’s very personal, Cara Castronuova, who is also a reporter for Newsmax, in addition to “a former two-time Golden Gloves Boxing Champion and head coach on NBC’s The Greatest Loser.”
Castronuova has already collected pivotal endorsements from key Trump allies: Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who in his endorsement described her as “THE AMERICA FIRST candidate on this race” and “a fighter who is aware of the way to ship outcomes.” Furthermore, she picked up one other large endorsement in longtime Trump ally and political operative, Roger Stone, who similarly described Castronuova as “a fearless journalist, a champion fighter, America First [and] totally helps President Trump.”
Moreover, on Monday, Castronuova landed the endorsement of the Richmond County Republican Occasion, whose chairman is Mike Tannousis. Within the endorsement, the Staten Island Occasion Chairman described Castronuova as a pacesetter “who will deal with the disaster on the border and the true points impacting our dwelling communities.”
However Castronuova has one main factor going towards her: her unapologetic loyalty to President Trump.
In a latest assertion, Castronuova held nothing back: ““I’m an ‘America First’ particular person. I consider Trump had nice insurance policies and he was an excellent president. He’s retweeted articles I’ve written.” She pulled no punches: “I’m not wishy-washy. Trump is the chief of our get together.”
She has additionally notably mixed her investigative journalism together with her advocacy for the Republican presidential frontrunner. In latest months, Castronuova has made headlines charging deep into the guts of territory typical knowledge deems unwinnable for Republicans, such because the Bronx, to ballot voters about who they plan to vote for within the upcoming presidential race. By way of his reporting, Castronuova uncovered that many Trump voters do certainly exist behind perceived enemy strains – so many the truth is that President Trump even recently teased hosting a possible rally in the South Bronx and different New York Metropolis venues within the coming months, possible impressed by Castronuova’s media hits.
Whereas this sentiment will doubtlessly endear her to New York Republican voters, the overwhelming majority of whom help Donald Trump, it additionally will rankle the Cox and Cairo-led get together institution and their handpicked candidate, Mike Sapraicone.
A latest dive into FEC records reveal that Sapraicone donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi over many years. Importantly, Sapraicone by no means donated a single penny, primarily based on these filings, to President Donald Trump. This may clarify why neither he nor the other Republican vying for the party nomination, Josh Eisen, has publicly expressed help for the Republican presidential frontrunner.
Sapraicone and Eisen are clearly the institution’s two favourite picks, with Sapraicone main the cost. As the previous NYPD officer was donating to Democrats like Suozzi, who’ve supported insurance policies which have straight led to the weaponization of the justice division and the flood of illegals now overtaking the state, Castronuova was organizing anti-lockdown rallies in Albany at the height of the pandemic.
As Sapraicone and Eisen have run away from the 45th President, Castronuova has embraced him, unreservedly, and with open arms – understanding, full properly, that President Trump’s destiny will decide the destiny of the remainder of the nation: whether or not America continues as a free nation that protects basic liberties corresponding to free speech and one’s proper to have autonomy over one’s personal medical selections or bear arms, or one which plunges headlong into tyranny.
New York’s nugatory Republican State Committee has performed completely nothing to reverse the bleeding. In actual fact, they’ve actively enabled it by nominating surefire losers like Pilip and Sapraicone for vital races that may have the impact of additional solidifying the Democrats’ grip on the state – accelerating the Empire State’s descent into oblivion. Thus, anybody who they rally behind must be mechanically met with suspicion, if not derision, by common voters who want to save their state.
Regardless of all of the chaos unleashed upon the state by each events, Donald Trump, regardless of all the things has needed to endure, is polling within single digits of Joe Biden in the Empire State. That alone must be sufficient to gauge the way to succeed as a Republican in a deep blue state like New York: embrace Donald Trump, wholeheartedly, and stand with him on the central points that matter.
President Trump alone confirmed the pathway to victory – and principled candidates like Castronuova, unafraid to undertake that mannequin, would assist transfer the state in the fitting course – over and towards the incompetence and corruption of Republican State Occasion leaders. This can be a do or die second for New York: they’ve final week’s instance of what to not do by nominating one other RINO hack like Sapraicone.
That’s, except they’re hellbent on dropping endlessly, which is the one logical rationalization for his or her actions. They are saying the definition of madness is doing the identical factor again and again and anticipating completely different outcomes. That’s Ed Cox and Joe Cairo in a nutshell: God keen, affordable heads prevail this time round and Castronuova, slightly than being shunned by get together leaders, will emerge as their nominee for the senate race.
