Elise Stefanik: Rise to Power

If you talk to anyone who has known or worked with Elise Stefanik since her earliest days in Washington, she is almost invariably described as smart, hard-working, and ambitious. “You could always tell she was going places,” a former colleague of hers tells me.

With a résumé like Stefanik’s, it was hard to think she wouldn’t end up somewhere important someday.

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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If you talk to anyone who has known or worked with Elise Stefanik since her earliest days in Washington, she is almost invariably described as smart, hard-working, and ambitious. “You could always tell she was going places,” a former colleague of hers tells me.

With a résumé like Stefanik’s, it was hard to think she wouldn’t end up somewhere important someday.