Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik said Friday that she is ending her campaign for New York governor and will not run for re-election to her House seat next year.

Rep. Elise Stefanik has decided to drop out of the Republican primary for New York governor, ten days after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced his candidacy.

In a post on X, Stefanik, a Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said “it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary an...