ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) - Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik announced a run for New York governor on Friday.

Stefanik has been a loyal ally to President Trump and a fierce critic of New York’s current governor, Kathy Hochul.

In a statement, Stefanik wrote:

“Kathy Hochul is the Worst Governor in America. Under Kathy Hochul’s failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery prices crushing hardworking families. Hochul has created a crime crisis with failed bail reform and her support of Defund the Police candidates. And when New Yorkers were looking for leadership the most, Kathy Hochul bent the knee to the raging Defund the Police Tax Hiking Antisemite Communist who will destroy New York. I am runn

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