Max Miller stays in Ohio race as GOP deadline passes
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- Max Miller will remain in his Ohio reelection race after the GOP's Monday 4 p.m. replacement deadline passed — local Republican officials would have needed at least two days' notice to meet, requiring Miller to withdraw by Saturday, which he did not.
- Emily Moreno, Miller's ex-wife, alleged he physically abused her and their young daughter; Miller has denied the allegations.
- Bernie Moreno, Miller's father-in-law and a Republican senator from Ohio, called the incumbent "a danger" and urged him to resign, with fellow Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio joining calls for Miller to drop out.
- President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have stood by Miller, breaking with the two Ohio senators in their own party.
- The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation last week into whether Miller may have engaged in domestic violence, abuse, or illegal drug use — after Miller himself asked the panel to investigate him.
- Miller is positioned to face Democrat Brian Poindexter in November in Ohio's 7th Congressional District, which had been considered reliably Republican, as the GOP fights to preserve its narrow House majority.
Why it matters: The intra-party split is unusually public: two Ohio Republican senators turned on a sitting GOP colleague while Trump and Speaker Johnson backed him, exposing a rift over the abuse allegations. With Miller locked in against a Democrat in a once-reliable Republican district, the GOP's narrow House majority now faces an unexpected November risk.
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