Jason Miller (communications strategist)

Jason Miller
Personal details
Born	1974/1975 (age 41–42) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	George Washington University (BA)

Jason Miller (born circa 1974) is an American communications strategist and political manager, best known as the chief spokesman for the fall 2016 campaign and presidential transition of Donald Trump. Miller is currently employed at Teneo Strategy, and was formerly a partner and executive vice-president at Jamestown Associates. He was initially announced as the incoming White House Communications Director during the transition but withdrew days later. In 2017, he became a CNN political contributor.

Miller was born and raised in Seattle. His first job in politics, from 1994 through 1997, was as a staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton of Washington. After earning his B.A. in Political Science from the George Washington University, Miller moved to California, where he spent most of the next year as Coalitions Director for businessman Darrell Issa who unsuccessfully sought the U.S. Senate nomination from California in the 1998 GOP primary. Miller later returned to California in late 1999 to serve as Issa's Political Director, in his successful 2000 campaign for nomination to Congress from North San Diego County.

Miller lives near Washington DC with his wife and two daughters.. He also fathered a child with A. J. Delgado during a brief extra-marital liaison, born six months after his second child.

Later in 2000, Miller was campaign manager for Ric Keller, who won an open seat in the House of Representatives representing Florida with 50.8% of the vote. Miller went on to serve as Keller's chief of staff lead his successful re-election effort in 2002. Keller won with 65% of the vote.

From July 2003 to July 2004, Miller managed Jack Ryan's campaign for U.S. Senate in Illinois. Under Miller's leadership, Ryan's campaign succeeded in winning a sharply contested race for the GOP nomination. Ryan's Democratic opponent was Barack Obama, then a state senator. However, Ryan chose to end his candidacy abruptly after a Democratic judge in California ordered the unsealing of the Republican candidate's custody file, over the objections of both parents, creating a public furor. (Ryan was replaced as nominee by Maryland resident Alan Keyes, and Obama coasted to an easy election that November.)

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