--- description: Find out why Elise Stefanik is one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. title: Elise Stefanik: The 100 Most Influential People of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8682ee4376829b7f/698a558f86f68ea9e16f5000/time-100-2024-elise-stefanik.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 17, 2024 # Elise Stefanik by Charlotte Alter  WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 07: House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks during a television interview in the U.S. Capitol on March 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Joe Biden will make his State of the Union address to Congress to highlight his administration's achievements and priorities for the coming year ahead of the 2024 Presidential election. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 07: House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks during a television interview in the U.S. Capitol on March 07, 2024 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Joe Biden will make his State of the Union address to Congress to highlight his administration's achievements and priorities for the coming year ahead of the 2024 Presidential election. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images [Elise Stefanik](https://time.com/6046674/elise-stefanik-liz-cheney-republican/ "undefined") is the highest-ranking woman in the House GOP and, since shedding her more moderate persona to fully embrace Donald Trump, is increasingly seen as a standard bearer for the party. First elected from upstate New York as the vanguard of a more bipartisan GOP, Stefanik, 39, now counts as one of Trump’s most powerful allies in Congress, having spent the past three years supporting his efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s win, amplifying false claims about election irregularities, and saying she would not have certified the 2020 election results. She’s now rumored to be on Trump’s short list of potential VP candidates. More recently, Stefanik has become a leading force in the conservative push to investigate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and antisemitism on college campuses; her pointed questioning of university presidents at a congressional hearing contributed to the resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and kick-started a pressure campaign that resulted in the resignation of the president of Harvard University, her alma mater. _Alter is a TIME senior correspondent_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/"},"headline":"Elise Stefanik","datePublished":"2024-04-17T11:06:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:27:59.343Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","2024TIME100","T100Leaders2024"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8682ee4376829b7f/698a558f86f68ea9e16f5000/time-100-2024-elise-stefanik.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8682ee4376829b7f/698a558f86f68ea9e16f5000/time-100-2024-elise-stefanik.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/","name":"Elise Stefanik"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See Everyone on the TIME100 2024 list","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/73p9kgIN/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-04-17T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/73p9kgIN.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/","duration":"PT1M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2024/6965201/elise-stefanik/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```