North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been in the national spotlight since the mass shooting Saturday that killed 10 people in a mostly Black neighborhood in Buffalo.
National media outlets and some members of her own Republican party claim Stefanik has embraced replacement theory, the false idea that there’s a plot to outweigh white voters with non-white immigrants. On Monday's episode of the New York Times podcast The Daily, reporter Nick Confessore explained that part of the scrutiny on Stefanik stems from her campaign ads.
"Elise Stefanik, who is the third-ranking Republican in Congress, released a campaign ad on Facebook claiming that Democrats were plotting a 'permanent election insurrection by granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.'"
A series of those Facebook ads ran last September. In one, a crowd of Latino-looking people is reflected in President Biden’s sunglasses. Big, bold text says “Stop Election Insurrection.” Stefanik’s ad falsely claims that Democrats are trying to flood the American electorate with millions of illegal immigrants
While some Republican leaders, including Stefanik, don’t explicitly mention racist ideologies, the Times' Confessore said the message appears clear.
“I think you can hear and see the echoes of replacement theory in their own language, of real Americans being disempowered, even cheated by immigrants and their enablers in the elite and the ruling class,” said Confessore.
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