Responding to a new report that Stephen Miller, recently elevated to White House chief of staff, plans to reach out to young men and minorities as his first order of business, two analysts on MS NOW reacted with amusement and shock.
According to an Axios report, the highly controversial Miller “wants to use his new role as White House chief of staff to win back young and minority men who helped elect President Trump in 2024 but swung toward Democrats in the midterms."
The report added, “Young, working-class and minority men fled the GOP in droves in last week's elections, amid high prices fueled by Trump's tariffs, the war in Iran, and concerns about AI's impact on the job market,” and Miller reportedly thinks he can bring them back into the fold, while noting, “Latino men also swung sharply toward Democrats, as the administration's hard-line immigration crackdown became an increasingly contentious political issue.”
“Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire brought up the report on Wednesday morning while speaking with MS NOW regular John Heilemann.
"A preview here of what the Trump administration, what their game plan is going to be as they really hurtle into this lame duck session there, at least for now, [is to] double down on their worst instincts,” Lemire observed. “And then Stephen Miller, you know, his thinking was previewed. I believe in the story in Axios this morning that he's going to focus on young men and Latinos.”
“Stephen Miller! Latinos! I'm not quite sure I see that working,” Lemire exclaimed.
“Yeah. Good luck with that,” Heilemann dryly replied with a smirk.
“I'd say Jonathan. I'd say it's a triple down in a lot of ways," he continued. "You got a trifecta here in terms of the actions that Republicans have taken and the White House have taken in the aftermath of the midterm elections. So you've got on the other side, you've got what Donald Trump, you know, went on 60 Minutes and said various things, sounding a little conciliatory on the immigration front.”
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