Congressman Max Miller doesn't want to talk about his congressional opponent ... dodging questions about his new political ad and focusing on his legislative successes.
TMZ DC tried to catch up with the representative from Ohio on Wednesday ... but our cameraman Charlie ran into a ton of resistance when he brought up Brian Poindexter's ad.
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Poindexter is running for Miller's seat in the House of Representatives ... and he shared an ad featuring his three daughters talking about how great a father he is.
Reporters in the Oval Office asked DT straight-up how he feels about them hightailing it across the pond, and he said ... "I'm happy about it. I was not a fan."
From where Trump's standing, he felt the Duke and Duchess were "terribly disrespectful" to their fellow royals.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden came out swinging Wednesday, saying a bunch of members of Congress shamefully use insider trading to make loads of cash, but he says Prez Trump doesn't cross the line.
Charliegot Van Orden in the Capitol, and the Representative from Wisconsin was clear ... "I get exposed to so much insider information because of my position and there have been of lot of my colleagues who abuse that."
Van Orden vows he has never nor will he ever buy, sell or trade individual stocks as long as he's a member of Congress, but he's clear ... lots of other members do just that.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson says Tupac Shakur's murder verdict brought back a night he'll never forget ... the night he saw Pac clinging to life.
Charlie caught up with the Illinois congressman on Capitol Hill Tuesday after Duane "Keffe D" Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder in Tupac's 1996 killing.
Jackson says he was at the Mike Tyson fight that night with his father, Rev. Jesse Jackson ... and the two later went to the hospital, where Jonathan saw Tupac in "pretty bad shape."
Rep. Mike Lawler isn't shy about his Michael Jackson fandom ... and says the jury that acquitted the King of Pop in 2005 absolutely got it right.
Jacob caught up with the New York congressman on Capitol Hill Tuesday and asked about a wild chapter from Lawler's past -- he actually attended part of Jackson's criminal trial as a high schooler.
Lawler says he was helping biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli with research at the time and ended up inside the Santa Maria courtroom, where Jackson was facing child molestation and other charges.
Rep. Nancy Mace may be running out the clock on Congress ... but she's nowhere near done running up her tattoo count.
Charlie caught up with the South Carolina congresswoman on Capitol Hill Tuesday, where Nancy showed up with her pup, Millie ... then quickly got down to the other new additions she's planning -- tattoos.
Mace says she's already got far more than nine tats and still wants to finish her half-sleeves ... though she's resisting going full sleeve so she can cover everything up when duty calls.
Hunter Biden says he's not totally straight ... jokingly telling a podcast host he's a "little gay" on a recent podcast episode.
Joe Biden's son made the comment on "The Luke Beasley Show" last week ... telling the host he's probably around 48.6% gay -- not quite 50/50, but pretty dang close.
Luke then asks Hunter if he would be Hunter's type if he were gay ... to which he replies no -- he'd only want super masculine dudes knocking on his door.
Donald Trump appeared to hit snooze in the Oval Office Monday ... but Rep.Tim Burchett says Sleepy Don ain't a thing.
Jacobcaught up with the Tennessee congressman on Capitol Hill Tuesday and showed him video of Trump appearing to doze off at his desk during an Oval Office event.
Burchett wasn't buying the nap talk ... telling Jacob POTUS wasn't sleeping, before joking he'd probably be out cold too if he had to sit through boring meetings all day -- eventually offering a pretty wild barnyard defense.
Rep. Andy Ogles thinks Jelly Roll's recent Trump trashing might have a surprising culprit ... Ozempic!!!
Our intrepid producer Charlie caught the Tennessee congressman on Capitol Hill Tuesday and asked about Jelly taking shots at President Trump -- and Ogles immediately tied the singer's political turn to his massive weight loss.
Ogles noted Jelly was once seen embracing Trump ... then joked he went on "Ozempic or whatever" and suddenly started hating POTUS, quipping that maybe that's a side effect.
Rep. Max Miller isn't touching questions about his personal life amid his bitter custody battle with ex-wife Emily Moreno and public feud with her father, Sen. Bernie Moreno ... going silent when pressed about the family drama.
We caught up with the Ohio congressman in D.C. Monday, where Charlie asked how it felt to be back amid everything going on in his personal life ... but Miller didn't bite.
As we've reported, Bernie has publicly branded his former son-in-law a "danger" to Emily and called for him to leave Congress, while Miller has claimed he has dirt on the senator.
Rep. Randy Fine says he can't remember rifling through a voter's mailbox while campaigning in Florida ... and now he's even questioning whether the video showing him doing it is real -- despite his office previously confirming to TMZ it was him.
Fine was pressed about the video by Jacob during an interview, saying he doesn't know whether the footage is authentic and doesn't remember ever going through the mailbox.
When Jacob pointed out Fine's office confirmed to TMZ at the time that it was him in the video, Fine pushed back ... claiming his office only said the person in the footage looked like him and questioning how anyone from his team could definitively know it was him.
Underwood -- a registered nurse -- told us postpartum psychosis is a very real medical condition ... and said women experiencing it need serious treatment, not a system that makes them afraid to reach out for help.
Hunter Bidengot real about how his dad dealt with his crack addiction ... revealing Joe Biden used to pull up with a motorcade to his apartment.
Hunter told "Dopey" podcast host David Manheim that Joe used to visit while he was living with "Bicycles" -- an unhoused person Hunter had asked to sell him crack and teach him how to smoke it.
He told Manheim he thinks Joe and Bicycles had crossed paths when he would roll up to their place.
Hunter explained that his dad would call repeatedly before resorting to other measures of checking in, saying ... "He literally, you know, would drive over with a, you know, with a motorcade."
Donald Trumpand his ever-present executive assistant Natalie Harp are once again practically joined at the hip ... this time linking up after his day on the links.
Harp and the prez were photographed Sunday sitting side by side in the back of an SUV as they departed Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., in Sterling, Virginia, where POTUS spent the weekend.
It's interesting to see them back together on a golf course, considering we now know that's where Harp had one of her roughest days on the job.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to bat for a Democrat ... unloading on Laura Loomer over her attacks on Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon and accusing Trump and the GOP of enabling her "nonstop vitriol."
MTG re-posted a nasty back-and-forth between Loomer and Nixon Sunday ... saying she's no Nixon supporter, but Loomer's rhetoric went way too far.
Greene wrote, "I 1000% denounce Laura Loomer and her nasty, hateful, racists comments" ... while accusing the Republican Party and Donald Trump of allowing Loomer to stay in the "inner circle."
