Elise Stefanik on Battling New York Leftists and Her New Book Poisoned Ivies

In this hard-hitting interview on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) delivers a scathing critique of single-party Democratic rule in New York while unveiling her explosive new book, Poisoned Ivies: Inside the Collapse of America’s Elite Institutions.

Stefanik slams Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams for broken promises, massive tax hikes on Tax Day, and policies accelerating the exodus of residents and businesses to low-tax states like Florida. She highlights collapsing tax revenue, New York’s bloated Medicaid budget (now larger than Florida’s entire state budget despite Florida’s bigger population), and absurd spending like a $30 million taxpayer-funded “government grocery store” not opening until 2029. Stefanik warns that socialist policies and Democrat dominance have created deep rot, driving people to “vote with their feet and their wallets.”

The conversation then turns to Stefanik’s book, which exposes the academic and moral decay at Ivy League schools. As a Harvard graduate, she recounts her viral 2023 congressional hearing where presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT equivocated on whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate campus codes of conduct — a moment that garnered more views than Watergate. The book details surging anti-Semitism after the October 7 Hamas attacks, radical professors, foreign funding, and high percentages of foreign students (including those chanting “death to America”).

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