特朗普总统的前工作人员卡罗琳·桑夏恩周三呼吁白宫幕僚长苏西·威尔斯辞职，原因是共和党在中期选举中遭遇惨重损失。
Caroline Sunshine, a former staffer to President Trump, on Wednesday called for White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to resign over the massive losses Republicans saw in the midterm elections.
桑夏恩在《杰西·沃特斯黄金时段》节目中对福克斯新闻的杰西·沃特斯表示，她要说的是“很多人私下里都在说的话”。
Sunshine told Fox News’s Jesse Watters on “Jesse Watters Primetime” that she was going to say “what a lot of people are saying privately.”
“苏西·威尔斯必须辞职，”她对沃特斯说，这番话让主持人挑了挑眉。“她应当在总统不得不开口之前主动提出辞职。她的竞选才能并没有转化为执政能力。苏西是2024年历史性胜利的幕后功臣，她理应为此获得赞誉，并因此得到了这份最高职位。”
“Susie Wiles needs to resign,” she told Watters, causing the host to raise his eyebrows. “She needs to offer her resignation to the president before he has to ask for it. Her campaign skills have not translated into governing. Susie was behind the historic win in 2024, and she deserved credit for it and got the top job for it.”
这位前特朗普工作人员还表示，威尔斯如今“成了一场历史性惨败的幕后人物——我们丢掉了密西西比州，还可能失去参议院长达六年，所以这是把双刃剑。”密西西比州参议院选情在参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯（共和党-密西西比州）与民主党人斯科特·科洛姆之间仍然胶着，《国会山报》的选举合作伙伴决策台总部（DDHQ）尚未宣布结果。根据DDHQ的数据，科洛姆以49.04%对48.85%领先海德-史密斯。
The former Trump staffer added that Wiles was now “behind the historic loss where we lost Mississippi and have lost potentially the Senate for six years, and so that cuts both ways.”The Mississippi Senate race remains tight between Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Democrat Scott Colom and has not been called by The Hill’s election partner Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Colom leads Hyde-Smith with 49.04 percent to her 48.85 percent, according to DDHQ.
Sunshine 表示，Wiles 继续留任可能会让共和党在 2028 年再次付出代价，并称“如果她爱戴并尊重总统及其政治遗产，她就会做正确的事，退居一旁。”
Sunshine said that Wiles remaining in her role could cost Republicans again in 2028 and that “if she loves and respects the president and his legacy, she’ll do the right thing and step aside.”
“而且这很大程度上是幕僚团队的失职，很大程度上是战略和信息传递的失职，”Sunshine 说。“管理幕僚团队是幕僚长的职责…… 为什么幕僚团队没有出面传递信息？”
“And a lot of this was staff failure, a lot of this was strategy and messaging failure,” Sunshine said. “It’s the chief of staff’s job to manage the staff … Why wasn’t the staff out messaging?”
中期选举前的报道曾暗示 Wiles 可能会在中期选举后离开白宫。《政治新闻网》上月报道称，特朗普从盟友那里收到了关于 Wiles 的负面反馈，尽管他称该报道为“彻头彻尾的假新闻”，并表示 Wiles “拥有我完全的信心。” 特朗普也曾多次公开赞扬 Wiles。在 Wiles 今年早些时候宣布确诊乳腺癌后，特朗普称她为“了不起的人”和“了不起的斗士”。Wiles 于 9 月宣布自己已无癌症。
Reporting before the midterms suggested Wiles could leave the White House after the midterms. Politico reported last month that Trump had received negative feedback about Wiles from allies, though he called the story “TOTAL FAKE NEWS” and that Wiles “has my COMPLETE confidence.”Trump has also publicly praised Wiles on numerous occasions. After Wiles announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year, Trump referred to her as “an amazing person” and “an amazing fighter.”Wiles announced in September that she was cancer free.
前白宫幕僚长 Mick Mulvaney 在 NewsNation 节目《国会山周日访谈》中表示，他预计她将在中期选举后离职，但并非因为“她失去了特朗普的青睐”。“这只是一个自然的变动时机，”他补充道。
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” that he expects her to leave her post after the midterms, though not because “she’s fallen out of favor with Trump.”“It’s just a natural sort of time to make that change,” he added.
特朗普首任期内的前白宫副新闻秘书 Sarah Matthews 10 月在接受 MeidasTouch 采访时表示，总统对“目前的状况”感到满意，并曾向盟友透露过替换人选的想法。她暗示，特朗普曾提出由副幕僚长 Stephen Miller 接替 Wiles，Matthews 将这一想法描述为“一个令人恐惧的前景。”
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary in Trump’s first term, told MeidasTouch in October that the president has been pleased “with the way things are right now” and had floated replacement ideas to allies. She suggested that he floated the idea of replacing Wiles with the deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, an idea Matthews described as “a terrifying prospect.”