{"id":8908,"date":"2026-08-11T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:39:03","slug":"national-democrats-step-up-support-for-rep-max-millers-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8908","title":{"rendered":"National Democrats step up support for Rep. Max Miller\u2019s opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ohio Republican denies his ex-wife\u2019s abuse allegations, but Democratic nominee Brian Poindexter has been added to the party\u2019s \u201cRed to Blue\u201d program.<\/strong><\/p>

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Democratic House nominee Brian Poindexter, left, and Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio). (AP; CQ-Roll Call\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Democrats are betting that domestic <\/b>abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) will turn his conservative House district competitive this fall.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm for House Democrats, announced Tuesday that it is adding Miller\u2019s challenger, Brian Poindexter, to its priority \u201cRed to Blue\u201d program.<\/p>\n

The designation, which has been given to 30 other candidates seeking to flip GOP-held districts in November, opens up additional party resources, strategic guidance and fundraising support for Poindexter, a union ironworker and city council member in a Cleveland suburb.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian Poindexter is exactly the kind of leader Ohio families deserve in Congress,\u201d Rep. Suzan DelBene (Washington), who chairs the committee, said in a statement that referenced \u201ccredible allegations of domestic violence that cannot be ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller denies any wrongdoing and has dismissed the claims, which are now being investigated by the House Ethics Committee<\/a>, as fabrications during a messy custody battle. He has suggested his ex-wife is mentally unbalanced, which she denies.<\/p>\n

After their divorce last year, Miller\u2019s ex-wife accused him in court filings of throwing hot water on her from a pan of eggs he had just cooked, holding a gun to her head and hurting their 2-year-old daughter, who suffered a fractured collarbone in February.<\/p>\n

There is unlikely to be a report on the credibility of those allegations before voters head to the polls. The House Ethics Committee traditionally goes silent for 60 days before an election, a period that would begin Sept. 4.<\/p>\n

Poindexter\u2019s promotion to \u201cRed to Blue\u201d status comes a <\/b>day after the window closed for Republicans to replace Miller<\/a> on the ballot as their nominee in Ohio\u2019s 7th Congressional District, which stretches south from the Cleveland suburbs.<\/p>

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Some Republicans, including Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), Miller\u2019s former father-in-law, had sought to pressure Miller to step aside and allow local party officials to choose a new candidate.<\/p>\n

But Miller vowed to carry on in the race because he said he did not want his daughter to see him as \u201ca quitter.\u201d Prominent GOP leaders stood by him, including President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana).<\/p>\n

With Trump\u2019s popularity fading across the country, Democrats are optimistic about expanding their map this fall into districts that would typically be off the table.<\/p>\n

Republican campaign officials <\/b>have <\/b>privately expressed little concern about Miller\u2019s race, however, because of the conservative leaning of the seat. Trump won it by 11 percentage points in 2024 \u2014 though Miller trailed, winning 51 percent of the vote against a Democrat and a populist independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrat Brian Poindexter supports a radical far-left agenda that is completely out of touch with northeast Ohio,\u201d Zach Bannon, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which supports GOP House candidates, said in a statement. \u201cHe will be rejected by Ohioans this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post interviewed dozens of voters in the district<\/a> last week and found that the Miller scandal was barely registering.<\/p>\n

Many were unfamiliar with the abuse accusations against Miller, and even those Republicans who had heard were largely wary of wading into what they considered a family matter and reluctant to abandon the congressman. Only a handful of conservative voters told The Post that they were even open to considering his Democratic opponent.<\/p>

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Dan Merica contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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