MAGA pundit Steve Bannon has reacted with fury to Virginia’s latest redistricting moves to the advantage of Democrats, attacking conservative complacency and warning his side that after November’s midterms: “We ain’t gonna be in power!”
The state’s voters moved Tuesday to approve a redrawing of its electoral map that could ultimately see the opposition claim as many as four extra seats in the House of Representatives.
President Donald Trump started the gerrymandering merry-go-round by urging deep-red Texas to redraw its map last year to give Republicans a boost nationally, only for California and other states to retaliate with equivalent efforts of their own to cancel out the play.
On Wednesday’s episode of his Real America’s Voice show War Room, Bannon insisted the MAGA movement “is still alive and on fire,” urging viewers not to listen to pundits who say otherwise, while also conceding that things are “not perfect” and that some administration policies are causing “upset.”
In a meandering monologue, Trump’s one-time White House chief strategist hit out at what he sees as a culture of “consultant lobbyist crap” that is failing to identify the issues that will inspire people to get out and vote Republican.
Pivoting to Virginia, he complained: “We had something that was so fricking winnable. With the people putting Trump on their shoulders and saying, ‘We’re not going to let it happen.’ And of course, the consultant says, ‘Shhh, you don’t want to bring up Trump because we might upset Democrats.’”
Bannon fumed: “Are you kidding me?! Do you not know where the country is right now?”
He went on to claim that the state’s Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, is “running a color revolution, dude. She’s trained by the CIA!”
Getting into the redistricting in more detail, Bannon said it would enable Democrats to pick up more rural counties in Virginia, declaring: “The foreign-born deep state folks up there [are] infesting the entire Commonwealth. That’s their plan. And that’s their plan everywhere. Because that’s how they win.”
He went on to denounce “conventional politicians” like Glenn Youngkin, the former governor defeated by Spanberger, for delivering “defeat after defeat.”
“Now it’s a crushing, now they turned over the whole frickin’ state,” Bannon continued. “It’ll take us a decade to dig out of this. A decade of those grassroots going door-to-door.”
He claimed that Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War would be left “disgusted and revolted by the scum of this consulting class that is stealing money,” lambasting them for their anxiety about losing the Senate in November.
“You’re damn right, you’re going to lose the Senate because you’ve given nothing for people to work for! Complete total group of scumbags, [John] Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, John Thune, the whole lot of them!”
Briefly coming up for air, Bannon cut to guest Raheem Kassam, who suggested that Trump, too, deserved some of the blame for events in Virginia.
“I don’t hold the president culpable,” Bannon responded. “Good god man, he’s fighting wars, he’s trying to bring world peace, he’s trying to turn the economy… The whole weight of the world’s on his shoulders. He shouldn’t have to micromanage a campaign. That should just be done.”
He went on to say that Trump himself had the charisma to get campaigners out to drum up support, but warned that “right now, folks, take your number two pencil and write this down: We ain’t going to be in power!”
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