{"id":2495708,"date":"2025-10-07T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-miller-says-aoc-helps-republican-approval-ratings-go-up-amid-spat\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:36:46","slug":"stephen-miller-says-aoc-helps-republican-approval-ratings-go-up-amid-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-miller-says-aoc-helps-republican-approval-ratings-go-up-amid-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Miller says AOC helps &#8216;Republican approval ratings go up&#8217; amid spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstephen-miller-says-aoc-helps-republican-approval-ratings-go-up-amid-spat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2495708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article covers a recent exchange between White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). During an Instagram livestream, AOC mocked Miller by calling him a &#8220;clown&#8221; and making fun of his height, encouraging her viewers to &#8220;laugh at&#8221; him and the Trump management. Miller reacted to the clip on Fox News with a smirk, dismissing AOC as a &#8220;train wreck&#8221; and claiming that her appearances actually boost Republican approval ratings while hurting Democrats. He referred to her as a &#8220;walking nightmare.&#8221; The article notes that despite the spat, both <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >figures maintain significant political influence<\/a>: Miller is associated with rising Republican approval ratings, and Ocasio-Cortez remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-slams-bidens-cruel-border-wall-decision-and-tells-him-to-reverse-course\/\" title=\"... criticizes Biden...s ...cruel... border wall choice, urges him to ...change direction....\">prominent progressive voice<\/a> with a strong fundraising record and a national campaign effort alongside Senator Bernie Sanders. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Stephen Miller says AOC helps &lsquo;Republican approval ratings go up&rsquo; amid spat<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2361707\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>White House deputy chief of staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3839592\/stephen-miller-laughs-off-jb-pritzker-lie-ice-racially-profiling-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephen Miller<\/a> criticized Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3476476\/aoc-campaign-money-house-15-4-million-war-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>&lsquo;s (D-NY) suggestion that her supporters should &ldquo;laugh at&rdquo; him.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez attacked Miller during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPccUOMkW64\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an Instagram livestream<\/a> on Sunday that had 4,000 viewers. While the viewers commented in real time to express they were &ldquo;scared,&rdquo; Ocasio-Cortez recommended that they start mocking the Trump administration, namely Miller.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3840470\/congressional-leaders-furloughed-federal-workers-backpay-shutdown\/\">Congressional leaders offer support for furloughed federal workers receiving back pay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3840174\/marjorie-taylor-greene-joins-republicans-extending-obamacare-subsidies\/\">MTG joins handful of Republicans in favor of extending Obamacare subsidies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3839809\/jeffries-schumer-deny-trump-claim-bipartisan-shutdown-talks\/\">Jeffries and Schumer deny Trump&#8217;s claim about bipartisan shutdown talks: &#8216;Isn&#8217;t true&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Stephen Miller is a clown. I&rsquo;ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he&rsquo;s like 4&rsquo;10&rdquo;. He looks like he is angry about the fact that he&rsquo;s 4&rsquo;10&rdquo;. He looks like he is so mad that he is 4&rsquo;10&rdquo; that he&rsquo;s taking that anger out at any other population possible,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Like, laugh at them. Laugh at them,&rdquo; Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller watched the clip on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>The Ingraham Angle<\/em> on Monday night and stifled a smile.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, we knew that her brain didn&rsquo;t work; now we know her eyes don&rsquo;t work. She is just a mess, right? A train wreck,&rdquo; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>On X on Monday night, Ocasio-Cortez shared the segment from Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I cannot believe they aired this and made him listen to it live,&rdquo; she wrote with a laughing emoji. &ldquo;I am crying.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I cannot believe they aired this and made him listen to it live &#128514; I am crying <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yme8ZeRGO3\">https:\/\/t.co\/yme8ZeRGO3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1975376263964664144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to Miller, the more airtime Ocasio-Cortez receives, the better off the Republican Party is.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the important point is that every time she is on TV, Republican approval ratings go up, Democratic approval ratings go down,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That lady is a walking nightmare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4&rsquo;10&rdquo;: We knew her brain didn&#8217;t work now we know their eyes don&#8217;t work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G4m6uDMnrI\">pic.twitter.com\/G4m6uDMnrI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1975339795405779352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>When host Laura Ingraham asked Miller his true height, Miller laughed and responded that he is 5 feet 10 inches.<\/p>\n<p>In July, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3459925\/congressional-republican-polls-achieve-record-high-approval-rating-in-large-jump-since-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Public Radio-Public Broadcasting Service News-Marist poll<\/a> found that 36% of registered voters approved of the job that congressional Republicans are doing in office, a 10 percentage point increase from the year before and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-appears-to-be-a-popular-lead-for-2024-straw-poll-shows\/\" title=\"DeSantis Appears To Be A Popular Lead For 2024, Straw Poll Shows\">highest approval rating<\/a> since the pollsters first asked the question in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3839592\/stephen-miller-laughs-off-jb-pritzker-lie-ice-racially-profiling-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>STEPHEN MILLER LAUGHS OFF PRITZKER&rsquo;S &lsquo;LIE; ICE IS RACIALLY PROFILING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez is touring the country on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3392890\/bernie-sanders-dismisses-slotkin-criticisms-fight-oligarchy-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Fighting Oligarchy&rdquo; campaign<\/a> alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez enjoys a popularity of her own as she is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3476476\/aoc-campaign-money-house-15-4-million-war-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> the top campaign fundraiser in the House<\/a> as of July, when her war chest was $15.4 million.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miller: AOC boosts GOP approval amid their feud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2495709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/miller-aoc.jpg?1759846293&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[8334,64767,48816],"class_list":["post-2495708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-aoc","tag-republican-approval-ratings","tag-stephen-miller"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/miller-aoc.jpg?1759846293&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495712,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495708\/revisions\/2495712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}