Miller, a 32-year-old Navy reservist, is a loyal to Trump who worked on the ex-president’s campaign in 2016 before serving in the White House, first at the staff office and then as director of advancement. During the 2020 re-election campaign, he served as deputy campaign manager for presidential operations. Miller, who comes from a prominent family in northeastern Ohio, recently bought a house on Rocky River, in the Gonzalez district.
Miller made it clear that he plans to make Gonzalez’s impeachment vote a centerpiece of his campaign, writing on twitter that the congressman “betrayed” voters with his vote.
Trump told advisers that he intends to overthrow the Republicans who supported his impeachment and others in the party he considers disloyal, including Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, whom he accused of not doing enough to intervene in the state’s vote count. in 2020. The former president met with political advisers at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday to discuss his political plans, including how he plans to weigh in the 2022 disputes.
Trump has already endorsed several candidates in next year’s elections, including former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is running for the Arkansas government, and Kansas Senator Jerry Moran.
The ex-president will be able to pour significant money into these races. He established a leadership PAC with tens of millions of dollars that could be spent on ads or distributed in campaigns he supports. He also started making plans to start a super PAC, which could spend unlimited amounts of money on advertising.
Miller joins an increasingly long list of former Trump advisers who are looking for a position or evaluating potential offers. In addition to Sanders, former Slovenian ambassador Lynda Blanchard launched a campaign for Alabama’s Senate seat. Cliff Sims, another former Trump adviser, is seriously considering joining the Alabama race, and former campaign advisor Katrina Pierson is a potential candidate for a special election in the Texas House.
Gonzalez defended his impeachment vote, saying in a recent appearance on a conservative podcast that during the January 6 Capitol uprising, “the president did not take an almost certain step in my opinion, to stop him.”
“You have to love your country and fulfill your oath more firmly than your job, and I don’t know what the political fate will be,” said Gonzalez. “If my destiny is not to be able to return, I will do it in peace.”