CBS News cornered podcaster Katie Miller into an embarrassing admission on Tuesday night. After asking her if she’d made it down to vote, she told CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell:
“You see that moms are too busy raising their children and taking care of them to get to the polls.”
When pressed further, Miller conceded that she had not voted, citing safety concerns. “I did not vote in Virginia because in Virginia, when you vote, you dox your own address,” she said. “So I prefer my safety and security over giving that up.”
Miller, a mother of four, is married to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and they live on a military base in northern Virginia. Virginia’s Department of Elections guidance says the address on a voter’s ID does not have to match their address in the pollbook.
Earlier Tuesday, Miller had posted on X that conservative women should have more children because kids “cancel out the votes of the America hating leftists.”
She later acknowledged “candidate quality” as a reason Republicans lost the midterms, saying there “weren’t good options in the first place.” Though President Donald Trump had handpicked and boosted many of those candidates himself, she argued that Republicans would have performed better if Trump’s own name had been on the ballot.
Traci Brown, a body language expert and behavioral analyst, reviewed Miller’s interview for HuffPost and noted that several moments stood out.
The question about voting was a “yes or no” question, Brown noted. “She chooses to generalize and talk about moms being too busy,” Brown said. “Generalization is usually a hot spot that there’s information being held back.”
“When Miller was asked about taking care of her kids, her blink rate spikes,” Brown continued. “So this is a stress point,” Brown said. Miller’s blinking increased again when she discussed Trump’s record. “High blink rates are generally associated with high stress.”
“When she talks about why she didn’t vote, she says she prefers her safety over voting, but pairs it with a one-shoulder shrug,” Brown said. “She doesn’t quite believe herself.”