Democrats quickly folded the apparent tech issues into their existing criticisms of Stefanik as a close Trump ally
in San Francisco
Friday 07 November 2025 18:47 GMT
Observers said Elise Stefanik’s campaign for governor launched with a website filled with spelling errors and filler text (Addison Dick / X)
*The Independent *has contacted the Stefanik campaign for comment.
*The Independent *was unable to access the initial version of the website with the alleged errors, and a cur…
Democrats quickly folded the apparent tech issues into their existing criticisms of Stefanik as a close Trump ally
in San Francisco
Friday 07 November 2025 18:47 GMT
Observers said Elise Stefanik’s campaign for governor launched with a website filled with spelling errors and filler text (Addison Dick / X)
*The Independent *has contacted the Stefanik campaign for comment.
*The Independent *was unable to access the initial version of the website with the alleged errors, and a current version appears to be fully edited.
Fellow Democrats and political observers joined in the criticism.
“Really messed up campaign website for Team Stefanik,” wrote New York political journalist Alex Gault. “She’s been teasing this run for months!”
Not to be outdone, Stefanik’s rival in the governor’s race, the incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul, also pounced, sharing a link to a “website that’s not broken” leading to a video calling Stefanik a “sellout” for her close association with Trump and his policies like tariffs and insurance funding cuts that have impacted the state.
All in all, it was a rough day online for Stefanik’s campaign, with others joining the pile-on and resurfacing the New Yorker’s endorsement of the disgraced, now-former congressman George Santos, while Semafor political reporter David Weigel praised the Hochul campaign’s messaging as similar to the recent “landslide” Democratic win in the New Jersey governor’s race.
Rep. Stefanik is a staunch Trump ally known for her pro-Israel views and fierce questioning during congressional hearings (Getty Images)
“The sort of messaging just got [Mikie] Sherrill to a landslide in a less blue state,” Weigel wrote. “And there’s far more b-roll of Stefanik praising Trump. It’s not just ‘orange man bad,’ which doesn’t work, it’s ‘she’s focused on the orange man not you and she won’t stand up to him.’”
Stefanik, a longtime Trump ally, is known for her scathing questioning in Congress, including a highly viewed series of hearings where the Republican flummoxed university presidents under scrutiny for campus antisemitism during protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The Trump administration previously nominated Stefanik to be the United Nations ambassador, only to withdraw the nod in March over fears losing the GOP rep to the post would imperil the slim Republican majority in Congress.