Posted on 10/09/2017 8:45:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Stephen Bannon is looking to challenge every sitting GOP lawmaker except Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), saying "no one is safe" as he looks to challenge the Republican establishment in the 2018 midterms and beyond.
"There's a coalition coming together that is going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz," Bannon told host Sean Hannity on Fox News' "Hannity" on Monday night.
The former White House chief strategist said he plans recruit candidates who can run against the lawmakers who have not faithfully fought to enact Trump's agenda.
"There's a basic agenda that Trump ran on and won. He carried states Republicans haven't carried in living memory — Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. This agenda works. The American people voted for it," he said in part.
"By the way, [Mitch] McConnell would not be majority leader unless Trump — in North Carolina and Missouri and Wisconsin — was able to carry those senators across the finish line. It's incumbent upon them to back President Trump's plan, but you don't see it," Bannon continued.
His comments come around two weeks after an anti-establishment candidate he backed, Roy Moore, defeated incumbent Mississippi Sen. Luther Strange in a GOP primary for the special election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
McConnell and his allies spent heavily in their attempts to defeat Moore, who made opposition to the Senate leader a key part of his campaign.
Bannon, who returned to his role leading Breitbart News after his stint in the White House, said his team is "spending a ton of time with the grassroots organizations to make sure these candidates are fully vetted," saying they will be candidates with experience who are ready to take office unlike 2010 when the Tea Party movement was first gaining momentum.
"They will take on incumbents in every state, and then they will take on the Democrats after that," he remarked.
Bannon said the "globalist clique on Capitol Hill" including McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) have to go, remarking that the establishment has "total contempt for the forgotten man and the base."
"What you saw Corker say today, is what they talk about on Capitol Hill. That's why I left the White House. Remember, I said I'm going after the Republican establishment, and we are going to go after them," Bannon said, referring to his departure from the White House in mid-August.
Although Bannon would not give the full list of names he plans to specifically target, saying that information will come out over the next several weeks, he mentioned GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch (Utah) and Roger Wicker (Miss.) are on his hit list.
Bannon signaled that this is a long-haul fight he is planning to take on, saying sweeping congressional changes can take 15 to 20 years.
Needs new branch of the GOP—The Trumpocrat Party. The Tea Party on Steroids!
as angry as everyone was at Cruz after the convention. he has not been a part of the game playing that a lot of the establishment republican party has.
Oh, the Cruz haters will be here soon to disabuse you of that notion and call names, don’t worry.
Nope. Best I can tell, Cruz put it all behind him and got on board the MAGA express.
Is that because Ted might cry?
Or because Canada would intervene?
Remove Corker’s right hand toady on Iranian nukes as well. Though he was my initial choice last election the lying Cubanadian will side with the hard left when it really counts.
Except Cruz.
It isn’t that we hate Cruz. It is that we hate giving nuclear weapons to the ayatollahs.
Everyone who defends lying Ted has to embrace nuclear Islam because Cruz’s procedural shenanigans got Corker’s bill passed.
Defend him all you will, but in doing so you brand yourself as an Islamist and you will not dodge that connection today, tomorrow, next week, next decade, or any other time.
Ted, Corker, their supporters, and Iranian nuclear weapons are forever linked.
Your decision, but obfuscation is off the table.
HANNITY: I’m glad you are not going after Cruz. ....
BANNON: They’re good men,
Put some of that stuff you’re smoking in an envelope and fax it to me.
Can’t hear you through your towel head.
once Bannon’s PAC gets going, I’ll be making a substantial donation!
That’s about as funny as the Hillary sycophants calling everyone a Kremlin supporter.
Actually I wouldn't mind seeing him take over Ditch McCriminals job as Senate Majority leader. He could really make life uncomfortable for the establishment and the GOPe.
Bannon may be just the guy on the outside to blow up the Establishment, or to lay this kind of foundation for a well funded, organized Third Party that will unite the middle class and blue collar workers, R&D, who together elected Trump.
Listening to his message tonight reminds us that traditional Democrats can buy into this message and now understand that we are *done* with the Republican establishment, in the same as they are done with the radical Democrat establishment.
Every one of the Senators up for election in 2018 except for Cruz deserves to be removed from office.
We MUST take out the Amnesty Senators at the very least.
Hatch, Heller and Flake in 2018.
He’s not that powerful.Most people don’t even know his name.Dream on.
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