How Elise Stefanik lost a House race she wasn’t even running in 

The reason Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is cooling her heels in the House instead of heading to the United Nations to give them hell at Turtle Bay is that Republicans have gotten a case of the nerves.

Depending on what happens in a few elections being held Tuesday, their condition is about to get a lot worse or a lot better.

Stefanik is a kind of House of Representatives version of Vice President Vance. She started out as an old-fashioned Republican national security hawk, working in former President George W.