Caroline Sunshine, a former press assistant for President Donald Trump, is calling for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to resign, blaming her in part for the GOP’s sweeping midterm loss earlier this week, which she claimed “was 100% preventable.”
“I’m going to say publicly what a lot of people are saying privately. Susie Wiles needs to resign,” Sunshine told Fox News’ Jesse Watters Wednesday night. “She needs to offer her resignation to the president before he has to ask for it.”
Although Sunshine credited Wiles for helping Trump win back the presidency in 2024, she told Watters that “her campaign skills have not translated into governing.”
“But now she’s behind the historic loss, where we lost Mississippi and have lost potentially the Senate for six years, and so that cuts both ways,” Sunshine continued. “I think if she loves and respects the president and his legacy, she’ll do the right thing and step aside. Because, on the current trajectory, we can’t win in 2028 if we keep going down this current lane.”
Republicans suffered severe campaign losses on Tuesday night — just as many polls predicted — as Trump-endorsed candidates were saddled with the president’s sinking popularity caused by high prices and the war in Iran.
Sunshine compared Tuesday’s results to those of 2024, when Trump was elected to a second term, saying that “the president’s staff and his team took that winning playbook that we had in 2024 and they handed it to the Democrats.”
Explaining that Republicans had lost much of the support from young men and minorities who had voted for Trump in 2024, she noted: “A lot of this was staff failure. A lot of this was strategy and messaging failure. It’s the chief of staff’s job to manage the staff.”
“Why wasn’t the staff out messaging?” Sunshine asked Watters. “Abdul El-Sayed came on this network three times. The president’s staff was not out there on CNN and MS NOW and podcasts carrying his message,” she said.
Sunshine’s call for Wiles’ resignation comes weeks after a Politico report alleged her job was in danger. However, at the time, Trump said there was “zero chance” he is considering replacing her.
“TOTAL FAKE NEWS Politico doesn’t care about facts, integrity, or honest journalism — it’s why I kicked them out of the White House!” Trump told the outlet last month. “Susie Wiles is my loyal and longest serving Chief of Staff — there is a reason for that. She has been with me since the beginning, is my trusted advisor, and has my COMPLETE confidence. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”