Elise Stefanik wants to be Trump’s running mate. That’s unfortunate | Margaret Sullivan

That Stefanik is a rising star - and Liz Cheney a pariah - says everything about Republican politics today

Elise Stefanik is having a moment. If she were a song on the Billboard chart, she'd have a bullet next to her name to show the speed of her trajectory.

In recent weeks, the New York congresswoman has claimed credit for the demise of two major university presidents (those at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania), after she led the bullying about campus antisemitism during a congressional hearing.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture