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Max Miller could cost the GOP 3 seats in OH - Erik Erickson · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: You've been pretty clear that you think Republican Congressman Max
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  Speaker 1: Miller from Ohio needs to go following the abuse physical
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  Speaker 1: abuse allegations by his ex wife, not to mention two
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  Speaker 1: other women. Miller was on our show yesterday. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of what he had to say on the lead.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, when President Donald J. Trump faced the
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  Speaker 2: most extreme allegations, he stayed in and he was resilient.
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  Speaker 2: And what the American people can see is that they
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  Speaker 2: can see that somebody is fighting who is resilient, and
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  Speaker 2: that is a quality that the American people cherish.
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  Speaker 1: So he thinks that if he follows the Trump playbook,
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  Speaker 1: he can emerge victorious.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think.
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  Speaker 4: The American people have given Donald Trump a pass on
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  Speaker 4: a lot that they don't give anyone a pass on.
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  Speaker 4: Max Miller is no Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, he didn't have physical abuse allegations against women
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  Speaker 4: despite the various allegations. I mean Max Miller has physical
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  Speaker 4: abuse allegations, not just against the next wife. People can
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  Speaker 4: say this is some sort of messy divorce. He's got
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  Speaker 4: physical abuse allegation multiple women. He's no gram Plantner. I
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  Speaker 4: mean the Democrats push Platner out, They pushed Eric Swallwell out,
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  Speaker 4: they pushed Joe Biden out of a presidential race. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that Republicans won't push him out he could cost
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  Speaker 4: the GOP not just his congressional race, but also the
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  Speaker 4: Senate race in Ohio and the governor's race in Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: where by the way, Republicans are behind. Right now, you
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  Speaker 4: got multiple hundreds of thousands of Republicans in his district
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  Speaker 4: who may just sit it out because they didn't want
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  Speaker 4: to vote for him. I can't imagine why the GOP
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  Speaker 4: isn't going to the links the Democrats were willing to
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  Speaker 4: go to just to make sure a race is one
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  Speaker 4: in their column.
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  Speaker 1: I think there were some allegations of physical abuse against
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. Not to put too fine a point eg
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  Speaker 1: and Carroll and others, but I take your larger point
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  Speaker 1: that Maxim Miller is not Donald Trump. Explain why you
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  Speaker 1: think that he could not only cost Republicans his congressional
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  Speaker 1: seat but also hurt vivek Ramaswami, who's running for governor
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio and Senator Hohostad who's running for election to
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  Speaker 1: the Senate in Ohio. How could he this hurt him
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  Speaker 1: hurt them.
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  Speaker 4: This is a point Rerepublican's going to pay attention to.
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  Speaker 4: There're seven hundred and eighty nine thousand people in Max
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  Speaker 4: Miller's seventh congressional district. Of those, over three hundred thousand
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  Speaker 4: are registered voters, and of those, the majority of them
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  Speaker 4: are Republicans. Hosted and Ramaswami are running slightly behind their
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  Speaker 4: Democratic candidates. If one hundred thousand Republicans in Max Miller's
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  Speaker 4: district decide, you know what, I'm not going to go vote.
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  Speaker 4: This is disgusting. They're not going to go vote for
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  Speaker 4: Ramaswami or whostd either. And if they lose by fifty
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  Speaker 4: to seventy five thousand votes, I mean that could cost it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look up in Michigan, Mike Rodgers last has
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  Speaker 4: lost his twenty twenty four election to Elise Luck and
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  Speaker 4: by I think thirty thousand votes. You could have this
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  Speaker 4: happen in Ohio. Every vote counts, and suppress the vote
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  Speaker 4: with a bad candidate, you cost three seats, not one
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  Speaker 4: seat in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: So, David max Miller, we hear what he has told. Manu.
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  Speaker 3: If you're advising Maximullan right now, what do you what
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  Speaker 3: are you what are you advising?
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  Speaker 5: Get some help this one thing. I mean, look this.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I'd say, think about your family and
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  Speaker 5: what this is doing to your family. Uh. And I
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  Speaker 5: think his father and his ex father in law made
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  Speaker 5: an important point. I mean, how much do you value
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  Speaker 5: your political career versus the well being of your child? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: But listen, Uh, you know, I said, we spoke about
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  Speaker 5: this earlier in another place in this building. But and
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  Speaker 5: I said that, and I still you know, he is
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  Speaker 5: doing what his mentor taught him to do. He is denying.
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  Speaker 5: He is denying. He is denying. And you know, as
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  Speaker 5: for the speaker, the Speaker is a very moral man,
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  Speaker 5: and he consults higher sources on questions like this, like
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  Speaker 5: the President. That's the source he consults. And if Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump said he has to go, they would ask him go.
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  Speaker 5: But this MAXI Miller is close to him. He touched
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  Speaker 5: all of Donald Trump's funny bones yesterday on Jake's interview
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  Speaker 5: and said, I'm just doing what I learned from the
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  Speaker 5: President and so on. And so he didn't. But I
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  Speaker 5: think it could cost them a seat because that is
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  Speaker 5: a plus five partisan lean for Republicans. But that's not
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  Speaker 5: an insuperable barrier. Now I will say last thing, sorry,
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  Speaker 5: see you the last thing. In the Washington Post, they
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  Speaker 5: did an interview and his constituents said, no, we're not gonna.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was looking at today too.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's reading your note, thank you so. But
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  Speaker 5: this one woman said she would probably separate his personal
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  Speaker 5: foibles meaning domestic abuse, from her political considerations, as she
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  Speaker 5: has done for President Donald Trump. I know there are
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  Speaker 5: things in his past that people aren't happy with, and
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  Speaker 5: I've had to set it aside if it comes to that.
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  Speaker 5: That's where I stand. So you know this is this
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  Speaker 5: is the kind of environment that the president has created,
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  Speaker 5: and it's not limited, as you point out, Democrats have these,
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  Speaker 5: but in terms of discipline, there really isn't.
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  Speaker 3: Any What do you think of what David's raising because
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  Speaker 3: the Washington Post, the way they put it is that
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  Speaker 3: the scandal is barely registering back at home, and they
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  Speaker 3: talked to dozens of voters in his district. They said,
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  Speaker 3: and to David's points, yes, some said I can't any
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  Speaker 3: I can't back him anymore. But it seems that the
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  Speaker 3: take is, the general take is either they're not paying
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  Speaker 3: attention to it. It hasn't broken through there yet, or
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  Speaker 3: one woman who described herself as a Trumpelkin said, they
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  Speaker 3: can say all they want, but it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: sway my vote. I'm not perfect and I'm not that
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  Speaker 3: great of a person all the time, So I can't
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  Speaker 3: judge him. I'd have to vote for him even if
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  Speaker 3: I can't stand him. Her kind of suggesting, because I've
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  Speaker 3: got it's Republican or bust. Right, it's Trump's person or bust.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what do you do with that.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's a group of people and I feel like
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  Speaker 6: they're impenetrable. But I think there's a larger group of
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  Speaker 6: people that with every time they see this guy talk right,
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  Speaker 6: and he did Jake yesterday. He also went on news
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  Speaker 6: Max yesterday. He is talking and talking, and he will
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  Speaker 6: not be able to campaign in a vacuum. I think
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  Speaker 6: more and more people will be turned off because when
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  Speaker 6: you watch this guy, when you listen to this guy
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  Speaker 6: and we know he's denied all the allegations, he sounds creepy.
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  Speaker 6: He sounds really really creepy, and so I think he's
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  Speaker 6: going to be his own worst enemy here, his defiance,
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  Speaker 6: his ego, his refusal to do the right thing for
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  Speaker 6: his family, to David's point, or for his party politically,
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  Speaker 6: I think is going to be the thing that imperils
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  Speaker 6: the scene. And David's right, Ohio is competitive, and people
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  Speaker 6: like me, whose job it is to go out and
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  Speaker 6: talk about this, are going to tie him to Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 6: to you know, all the other Republicans facing this kind
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  Speaker 6: of scrutiny and asking is it worth it? Is he
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  Speaker 6: worth it to keep backing him? And I don't really
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  Speaker 6: understand what the meaning of leadership is.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna ask that too too for.
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  Speaker 6: Mike Johnson, jd Vance, Donald Trump, any of these guys.
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  Speaker 6: If you're not going to lead on these issues of character,
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  Speaker 6: and you're gonna push it right up to the very
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  Speaker 6: edge and make voters decide, you know where the line is,
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  Speaker 6: You're not leaders your followers, right.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the reason that the speaker is there because
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  Speaker 5: he is a follower and he follows the president and
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  Speaker 5: if the President said he has to go, he has
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  Speaker 5: to go.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this. But the little yes, it's taking insight
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  Speaker 3: even further that Manu ads is because of the existing
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  Speaker 3: bad frosty, as Monu described it, relationship between Max Miller
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  Speaker 3: and the speaker. There might be a calculation here of
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  Speaker 3: the speaker being like, if I come out and say
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  Speaker 3: get out, he's going to say I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: Is that should that be a calculation for a person
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  Speaker 3: in leadership?
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  Speaker 5: You know? I here's what I wonder. I wonder if
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  Speaker 5: I'm a member of the House and I'm fighting my
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  Speaker 5: ass off to try and keep the majority against great
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  Speaker 5: odds that have been made more difficult because the president's
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  Speaker 5: so unpopular, how do I feel about a speaker who's
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  Speaker 5: willing to give up a seat and not confront the
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  Speaker 5: issue that would really anger me if I were them?
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  Speaker 3: What do you think that when it comes down to it,
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  Speaker 3: We know that the speaker it seems as the Speaker
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  Speaker 3: doesn't move unless he's going to hear something from the president.
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  Speaker 3: We know the President's been I don't know the reporting
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  Speaker 3: is that he's privately does not think that Miller can
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  Speaker 3: win given the accusations publicly, Well, let me play what
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  Speaker 3: he said actually publicly just overnight.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be able to work it out. I feel badly.
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  Speaker 3: Is this dynamic really not changing unless Donald Trump just
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he sees, but he sees something
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  Speaker 3: and decides that he's now going to say Max has
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  Speaker 3: got to go.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that would be out of character for him. He
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  Speaker 6: has a long and consistent record of defending guys who
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  Speaker 6: have been accused of this kind of stuff, from herschel
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  Speaker 6: Walker to Roy Moore.
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  Speaker 3: Now the good.
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  Speaker 6: News to Donald Trump, to Donald Trump. But the good
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  Speaker 6: news in that, Rob Porter, I mean, there's a lot,
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  Speaker 6: But the good news in that is those people didn't win, right.
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  Speaker 6: The voters ultimately decided. So even though these guys want
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  Speaker 6: to shirk their responsibilities and their moral obligations to guide
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  Speaker 6: their party and their voters to the right place, the
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  Speaker 6: voters ultimately will make that call. And I truly believe,
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  Speaker 6: I truly believe that the more people here from Max Miller,
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  Speaker 6: the more they will decide they cannot in good conscience
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  Speaker 6: give this guy their vote.
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  Speaker 5: When he says he's not going anywhere, that's the thing
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  Speaker 5: he's ignoring. The people of his district can dispatch him,
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  Speaker 5: and I think there's a very good chance to say will.
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  Speaker 5: But the odd thing about that quote that you played
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  Speaker 5: from the President was he said, I feel badly for him.
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  Speaker 5: What about for his wife? What about for his child?
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  Speaker 5: What about for Senator Marino and the family. You know,
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  Speaker 5: that sort of absence of empathy for them is very telling.
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  Speaker 3: It is remarkable. How I mean the fact that the
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  Speaker 3: sitting Republican senator is the former father in law and
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  Speaker 3: the one that's taking a stand against another Republican from
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  Speaker 3: the state in the congressional delegation. I mean this whole
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  Speaker 3: thing again, I've said that I just can't. It is
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  Speaker 3: just it's awful. It is awful. It's awful.