Former Trump adviser Jason Miller said on Tuesday that it is essential for President Trump to maintain his outsider status in next year’s presidential election.
“He has to remain as essentially the challenger or the outsider in this race,” Miller, managing director at advisory firm Teneo, told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton on “Rising.”
“That’s the other big problem with the Joe Biden [candidacy],” he continued. “Joe Biden becomes the incumbent that President Trump can point to and say, ‘you know what, I’m still trying to fix the problems that you started here.'”
Miller previously served as a senior communications adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign and the communications director for the president’s transition team.
He pointed to economic relations between U.S. and China, which the Trump administration has worked to address through trade negotiations in an effort to end the trade war between the two countries.
One of the president’s campaign promises in 2016 was to give the U.S. more leverage in trade with economic powerhouses like China.
Trump said on Sunday that trade talks between Beijing and Washington were moving too slowly, and said tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods will rise to from 10 percent to 25 percent.
“I think we’re seeing right now, though, that especially with the China talks … this isn’t just a flash in the pan. We’re going to be talking about China all the way through next year,” Miller said. “This economic competition between the two countries is going to drive the next 50 to 100 years of human history.”
— Julia Manchester
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