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 h