GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik is launching a run for governor in New York, blaming Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state's high cost of living and tying the governor to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Stefanik's two-and-a-half minute launch video focuses largely on affordability. And while Stefanik is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, her campaign video does not make any references to the president.

"There's no question: New York is facing an affordability crisis," a narrator says in Stefanik's launch video, which also features commentators calling Hochul the "worst governor in America."

The video also ties Hochul to Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who just had a decisive win earlier this week to become the next mayor of New York City. Hochul endorse

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