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Nazarian, a former state Assembly member and former aide to Krekorian, said in a phone call Tuesday that he was “tired” but in “great spirits.”

Sources close to the transition confirmed Miller, who served as a senior aide during Trump’s first term — and has since created the American First Legal Foundation, a nonprofit based on challenging policies of the Biden administration through litigation — is anticipated to be named deputy chief of staff.

Soon after, she entered politics, serving as a White House domestic policy adviser under President George W Bush and eventually becoming a senior aide to Bush chief of staff Joshua Bolten.

Those moves “would turn much of the civil service into an army of suck-ups,” Robert Shea, a former aide to President George W. Bush, told me this year.

“We ran the best campaign we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” said one unnamed aide.