Miller, a 32-year-old Marine reservist, is a Trump loyalist who worked on the former president’s 2016 campaign before serving in the White House, first in the staff office and later as a director beforehand. During the 2020 re-election campaign, he was deputy campaign manager for presidential operations. Miller, who hails from a prominent northeastern Ohio family, recently bought a home on Rocky River in Gonzalez’s district.
Miller has made it clear that he intends to turn Gonzalez’s accusatory voice into the core of his campaign, write on Twitter that the congressman “betrayed” voters with his vote.
Trump has told advisers he intends to oust the Republicans who supported his accusation and others in the party he considers disloyal, including the Government of Georgia, Brian Kemp, whom he accused of not doing enough has to intervene in the state’s 2020 votes. The former president met with political advisers on his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday to discuss his political plans, including how he plans to weigh in on 2022 races.
Trump has already endorsed several candidates in next year’s election, including former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is running for governor of Arkansas, and Senator Jerry Moran in Kansas.
The former president will be able to spend significant money in these races. He has established a ten-million-dollar leadership PAC that can be spent on advertising or distributed to campaigns he supports. He also started estimating plans to start a super PAC, which could spend unlimited amounts of money on advertising.
Miller joins an increasingly long list of former Trump assistants looking for office or to weigh potential bids. In addition to Sanders, former Slovenian Ambassador Lynda Blanchard has launched a campaign for Alabama’s open Senate seat. Cliff Sims, another former Trump assistant, is seriously considering running for the Alabama race, and former campaign adviser Katrina Pierson is a potential candidate for a special Texas House election.
Gonzalez agreed with his accusation and said in a recent appearance on a conservative podcast that during the January 6 uprising, the president “did not, in my opinion, act in the right way to stop it.”
“You have to love your country and keep your oath stronger than you do your job, and I do not know what the political fate is going to play,” Gonzalez said. “If my fate is finally that I can not come back, I will do it in peace.”