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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Top GOP Leader Suddenly Quits as Party Implodes

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the Republican rising star Elise Stefanik dropping out the New York Governor’s race, quitting Congress, and entirely leaving politics altogether as Donald Trump has destroyed her career and destroyed the Republican Party. Live Better Longer with BUBS Naturals. For A limited time get 20% Off your entire order with code MEIDAS at https://Bubsnaturals.com Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.9

Magger Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefano, who is running for governor of New York,

0:32.1

has suddenly not just quit the governor's race.

0:35.4

She has quit politics entirely. She's also resigning as a member

0:40.9

of Congress and she will no longer be involved in politics at all. Everything Donald Trump touches

0:48.9

dies. She was once viewed as a rising star within the Republican Party.

0:54.2

She worked for George W. Bush in the 2000s.

0:58.0

She went to Harvard.

0:59.8

She was then a protege of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.

1:04.4

When Donald Trump came into office during the first regime,

1:08.3

she started more closely being an ally of him.

1:11.6

She went all in on Donald Trump and MAGA.

1:15.2

She was an election denier when Donald Trump lost in 2020.

1:20.1

She started calling the January 6th insurrectionist hostages.

1:24.2

And she went from being a moderate who was elected

1:27.2

in New York's upstate area to now being a

1:33.0

Maga radical who turned her entire New York constituency against her.

1:39.1

She became a loath political figure and she was even for all of her loyalty, utterly disrespected by Donald

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