WASHINGTON – Rep. Elise Stefanik will join the list of speakers at the Republican National Convention next week, appearing in a prime-time headline slot to provide a scandalous analysis of Joe Biden’s legacy, several Trump campaign sources told The Post.
The New York congresswoman, 36, will deliver an address from the historic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, from which other top-billed speakers are also expected, The Post will reveal exclusively.
Stefanik has been vying for a position of influence in the GOP since he was elected to Congress in 2015 and was appointed co-chair of President Trump’s informal impeachment defense team earlier this year.
The Nordic legislature is a close adviser to Trump and has become a money-laundering juggernaut – raising a massive $ 10 million for her bid for re-election this year in solid blue state New York.
The Republican National Convention has yet to announce its full line-up of speakers, but South Dakota Gov. Christ Named; Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student who filed defamation lawsuits against CNN and the Washington Post; and Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis homeowners who shoot guns at Black Lives Matter protesters, have all been confirmed.
One GOP source said Stefanik’s speech was “important” to upstate New York and Republicans in the blue state, noting that her speech would be much longer than the 60 seconds that fellow Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was assigned to her own convention this week.
In a statement, Stefanik said she was “honored” to speak out in support of Trump’s re-election.
“This election is a clear choice between President Trump’s record of delivering results to the American people in this challenging time versus Joe Biden’s 47-year-old failed record of far-left policies,” she said.
“Most importantly, I look forward to representing my constituencies in Northern New York who enthusiastically support the President,” she continued.
In an interview with The Post at the Oval Office last week, President Bullish declared that he would win the state, which has not voted for a Republican since 1984 – and said his campaign “put New York on stage”.
Stefanik noted the enthusiasm for Trump in her own 21st Congressional district.
“While working and camping in my district, I saw thousands of Trump signs compared to just two signs for Joe Biden,” the lawmaker said Friday.
“It took my Democratic opponent EIGHT long days for her to comment on whether she supports the Biden-Harris ticket. And she has only said she supports them because ‘she’s a Democrat’, which is how little support Joe and Biden have in this Obama-Trump district, ‘Stefanik added.
Trump will deliver his own hallmark speech from the White House, The Post reported last week that he had plans to deliver it on a lawn at the executive mansion for a crowd of supporters.
First Lady Melania Trump is also expected to give her address from the Rose Garden.
The Democratic convention was packed Thursday night with Biden giving a speech in Wilmington, Del., In which he promised to be “an ally of light, not darkness.”
The Trump campaign launched a massive counter-programming operation, including an eight-figure advertising campaign and a barnstorm of battlefield speeches, which saw the president deliver a speech about Biden’s legacy near his hometown Scranton, Pennsylvania, just hours before Biden appeared at the DNC.
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