Katie Miller, who was a member of President Donald Trump’s administration and is married to current White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, indicated that moms weren’t able to get to the polls for the midterm elections as a Blue wave hit the country, unseating GOP lawmakers across the nation.
“You see that moms are too busy raising their children and taking care of them to get to the polls,” Miller told CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell, per a report from the HuffPost.
Miller – who grew up in Florida and is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Washington University, according to People magazine – was answering O’Donnell’s question about whether she voted herself. Eventually, Miller admitted that she didn’t vote, citing concerns that her address would be revealed and doxed.
Since marrying her husband in 2020, Miller has had four children. She left politics, but has stayed in the MAGA circle and at the start of Trump’s second term, she was named as an advisor of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative led by well-known entrepreneur Elon Musk. Miller also started a podcast, and People magazine noted that some have criticized the show for promoting a “trad wife” lifestyle.
The Millers made headlines this April when footage of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that was interrupted when shots were fired by Cole Tomas Allen appeared to show Stephen using Katie as a “human shield,” People said. It noted that Katie defended her husband afterwards.
“Election Day always makes me want to have more kids to cancel out the votes of the America hating leftists. After all, conservatives have more babies,” Miller said in a Nov. 3 X post.
While Miller’s remark about mothers not having much time does hold a lot of truth, it seems like busy schedules didn’t keep all U.S. moms from the polls. Data from The New York Times shows that more women overall voted in the midterms, accounting for more than half of all voters.
That’s not a fluke, women often participate in the electoral process at higher percentages than men.
“In every presidential election since 1980, the proportion of eligible female adults who voted has exceeded the proportion of eligible male adults who voted,” according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
This year, 61% of women voted for Democrats in the midterms, compared to 51% of men, The New York Times data showed. That included 52% of white women, while just 43% of white men voted for Democrats. During the 2024 presidential election white women favored Trump, a Republican, by a four-point margin, according to the Pew Research Center.
The New York Times’ data didn’t show how many midterm election voters were mothers with children at home. An article published by the Brookings Institution earlier this year said there are an estimated 27.9 million families with children age 12 and under in the country.
According to the HuffPost, the Department of Elections in Virginia, where the Millers live, has guidance that says the address on a voter’s ID does not have to match their address in the pollbook. Virginia also allows mail-in and absentee voting. Though Trump often makes negative claims about mail-in voting, he’s voted by mail himself. Miller also acknowledged “candidate quality” as a reason Republicans lost the midterms, the HuffPost reported. She said “weren’t good options in the first place.”
Traci Brown, a body language expert and behavioral analyst cited by the outlet, said that Miller held back from answering the “yes or no” question about voting directly. She also said Miller’s shoulder shrug when talking about her safety concerns indicated that “she doesn’t quite believe herself.”
