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Eugene

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Sat Aug 9, 2025, 09:57 PM Aug 2025

Stephen Miller Yells About Democrats "cheating" in Defense of Trump's Election Power Grab [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Stephen Miller Yells About Democrats in Defense of Trump’s Election Power Grab

Janna Brancolini
Fri, August 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM EDT
3 min read

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller defended the president’s unprecedented midterm power grab with a factually incoherent rant about Democrats’ “cheating.”

Facing angry voters and razor-thin margins in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump has demanded that Republican-controlled states redraw their political maps ahead of the midterms, and has called for the Department of Commerce to hold a mid-decade census that would exclude undocumented immigrants.

Both the U.S. Constitution and federal law require the census to be held every 10 years and to count non-citizens, prompting critics to accuse the president of trying to rig the midterms.

During an interview Thursday with Newsmax, Miller tried to defend the move by claiming it was actually the Democrats who have used the census to “steal” House seats.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-yells-democrats-defense-144537135.html

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