“I’m
building the grassroots war chest with President Trump to fund America First
conservatives on the front lines to flip Congress and Save America from the
dangerous Far-Left,” Stefanik wrote, in bold, in the Parler fundraising email.
It seems pretty clear
what’s motivating this letter. Numbers USA, a conservative anti-immigration
group, gives her a D- rating for the current Congress and a C- rating for her career (grades that Stefanik, a
Harvard graduate, is generally unfamiliar with). During the election to replace
Cheney in House Republican leadership, multiple conservative groups also expressed concern
over the New York congresswoman’s record on immigration.
“She ties with a couple
other Republicans for the worst career voting record on immigration in New York,”
Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies, another
anti-immigration group, said to Politico.
The party has generally
followed Donald Trump’s lead in moving to the right on immigration, warning of
the perils of amnesty of any type. For an ambitious politician like Stefanik,
if she wants to continue to rise within Republican politics, she’s going to
have to prove some hardline immigration tendencies. And indeed Stefanik worked
to tack right on immigration throughout Trump’s presidency.
Read More: Elise Stefanik Gets Trumpier Still With
New Immigration Attack