OMG, I am so sick of hearing people repeat that ignorant lie! Bannon did not cost the seat. Richard Shelby, Jeff Flake, Mitch McConnell and the lying media cost us that seat.
Why are you spreading the lie that Bannon was the problem? What are you getting out of this need to blame Bannon for what people like Richard Shelby did?
Why are you still in denial about Moore? Did you miss the Hannity interview? Did those answers sound consistent with his previous unequivocal press release denials?
Look, I’d have voted for Moore if I lived in Alabama because I’ll never vote for Democrat, but he was a horrible, flawed candidate. We’re not Democrats - we don’t need to construct crazy excuses and alternate realities for why things went wrong.
And, besides his personal flaws, he also left the freaking state in an extremely close race the weekend before to catch the Army-Navy game. He may have been one of only a handful of Republicans in the entire state who could have lost that race.
So, stop blaming us for lousy candidate quality control. You shouldn’t need to drag a Republican over the finish line in Alabama no matter what Shelby or anyone else said. Trump was widely hated by the establishment before his election and crushed Hillary in Alabama.
If voters stuck with Trump, we’d still have that seat with a reliable vote for his agenda. Instead, we have another Schumer stooge for 3 years because Bannon and a few others wanted to be seen as the true MAGA movement leaders with Trump as just a figurehead. They made themselves look like fools and more importantly, hurt the agenda which they ostensibly seek to advance.