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Republican Representative Max Miller, the former Donald Trump aide turned Ohio congressman, issued a warning Monday against five top House GOP members should the former president get reelected in 2024.
Trump is currently among the packed field of candidates seeking the 2024 GOP presidential nomination as part of his bid for a second term in the White House. Over the past year, he has consistently led the polls by a sizeable margin, regularly receiving 50 percent support from likely Republican voters at the national level, while his opponents have struggled to muster double-digit support.
Such a commanding lead has led many observers to consider it an inevitability that Trump will receive the Republican nomination for a third time next year. As noted in a Monday report from Politico, Republicans in Washington, D.C., are already bracing for another election cycle dominated by the former president. The report also found a sense among some GOP members that a second Trump term could lead to major clashes with high-level party leadership.
Among those making such predictions to Politico was Miller, who has represented Ohio's 7th District since January after previously holding various positions in the Trump administration. Speaking to the outlet, the Trump-aligned congressman seemed to suggest that the former president's return could mean particular trouble for the five members of Congress who constitute the House GOP leadership: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, and Republican Policy Committee Chair Gary Palmer.
"One thing I'm pretty certain of is that the leadership is all up in the air," Miller said. "And I don't think any of them survive after this term."
Newsweek reached out to the offices of Trump and Johnson via email for comment.
While Miller's comment suggested that all of the House GOP leadership roles could be up in the air, it is also likely that those with a history of strong loyalty to Trump, like Stefanik, might survive any change-ups. Johnson has also been notably aligned with Trump over the years, but his recent willingness to extend government funding deadlines to avoid a shutdown, the same move that sank his predecessor Kevin McCarthy, has caused tension among those House Republicans seeking a firmer stance on big spending cuts, including Miller.
"He continues to play games," Miller previously told Politico late last month. "We are talking about a man [who] 30 days ago said that he was an anti-CR guy. We are talking about a man 30 days ago that was anti-Ukraine funding...It shows me he was never really morally convicted in his positions to begin with."
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