This seems wise to me:

President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew his nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump cited the razor-thin majority that Republicans hold in the House of Representatives for his decision to pull Stefanik’s name from consideration by the Senate for the U.N. post.

The vote of Stefanik, a New York Republican, has repeatedly been crucial in helping the GOP caucus pass key legislation since the beginning of Trump’s term in January.

The full Senate for nearly two months had held off on voting on her ambassadorship nomination, after it was recommended by the Foreign Relations Committee, because of concerns that her departure from the House would threaten Trump’s legi

The post of ambassador to the UN is, I’m afraid, a rather meaningless job. Yes, it’s nice to have someone good in the position, but the task is to basically take orders from the White House and give ringing speeches at an institution that is hopelessly wrong-headed. Trump doesn’t need to threaten his own House majority in order to choose someone who can do that.

I was curious how the article would deal with the way in which NY Democrats have been handling the special election to replace Stefanik. Here’s the answer:

If Stefanik left the House, her seat would be filled by a special election in New York.

That leaves out the real reason why Trump removed her nomination:

“We still haven’t seen the final proposal from the Democrats in Albany, but there’s no doubt that Tammany Hall corruption is alive and well in the state capital,” Republican New York Assemblyman Matt Slater, who represents the state’s 94th district in areas of Putnam and Westchester counties, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive Zoom interview on Sunday morning.

“It is just blatantly corrupt for the New York State Democrats to keep changing the rules of engagement simply out of self-interest. Meanwhile, New Yorkers are struggling in so many different ways. U-Haul just gave us our worst migration rating ever because there’s so many New Yorkers who are fleeing this state. So they can get things done, but they only do it when it benefits them,” Slater continued.

Slater, who serves as the ranking Republican on the state’s Election Law Committee, was reacting to state Democrats working to introduce legislation that could keep Stefanik’s House seat vacant until June, when the state holds its scheduled primary elections.

And that’s not all. The Republicans of NY are doing a little dance, as well. Here’s the situation:

However, there is turmoil within New York Republicans because supposedly one Republican candidate, state Sen. Dan Stec, threatened to run as a third-party candidate if he did not win the Republican primary.

The state’s Conservative Party favored Stec despite him not supporting Trump and taking sides with the state’s Democrats.

What’s up with that? My guess – and it’s only a guess – is that, as in many deep blue states, the GOP in NY isn’t used to fighting to win. Many of them are in it for other reasons.

But there is a larger issue involving special elections and the GOP. I’ve noticed in the past it seems to be that, in special elections, the left mobilizes much better than the right. Turnout is ordinarily quite low in special elections and therefore it’s possible for a very motivated minority to win, and the left is certainly very motivated.

So, for example, we have this in Florida:

Voters in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, a Republican stronghold on Florida’s northeast coast, will head to the polls on Tuesday to elect a successor for the seat vacated by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. In November, Waltz won reelection by a whopping 33-point margin and President Donald Trump won the district by 30 points.

Although Republican candidate Randy Fine is expected to eke out a win over his Democratic opponent Josh Weil, a new St. Pete Polls (for Florida Politics) survey shows Fine ahead by just 4 points, which falls within the poll’s margin of error.

Is it a skewed poll meant to put fear into the GOP? I have no idea, but the article mentions that another poll shows Republican Fine 13 points in the lead. However:

The general consensus is that Fine has run a lackluster campaign. For starters, he has been outraised by a staggering 10-to-1 margin.

That is common. The left has some very deep pockets and is not reluctant to dig into them when it matters. There is no question that they would early love to flip the House, and special elections are a tool for doing that.

It seemed short-sighted of Trump to nominate people from the House, with such a narrow majority and the threat of special elections to choose a successor. No district is “safe” under present-day conditions.