Max Miller, the beleaguered US Republican representative from Ohio, has vowed to defy a rising groundswell of resignation calls from his own party over domestic abuse allegations after his ex-father-in-law, Bernie Moreno, a GOP senator, said he was unfit to serve in Congress. “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them,” Moreno, an ally of Trump, posted on Sunday. The West Virginia senator Shelley Moore Capito said: “I don’t know [Miller]. “And certainly, when it comes to allegations of domestic abuse, child abuse, that’s not what we want in our lawmakers.” Miller denies allegations of abuse and has filed a defamation case against his wife over the claims.