Posted on 10/14/2017 7:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said Saturday that President Trump will "win with 400 electoral votes in 2020," following reports that he had lost faith in the president's ability to complete his current term.
"The populist, nationalist, conservative revolt that's going on, that drove Donald Trump to victory, that drove Judge [Roy] Moore to victory, that will drive 15 candidates to victory in 2018, and I hate to break it Graydon Carter and the good folks at Vanity Fair, but yes, President Trump is not only going to finish this term, he's going to win with 400 electoral votes in 2020," Bannon said during a speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
Bannon reportedly said several months ago that Trump only has a 30 percent chance of finishing his current term, a source told Vanity Fair, who said the president also did not know the function of the 25th Amendment, which allows a majority of the Cabinet to vote for the president to be removed from office.
Bannon returned to the far-right Breitbart News outlet after leaving the White House in August. The former Trump strategist said he left his post to be a "wingman outside" the White House for Trump to help advance the president's agenda.
In his speech Saturday, Bannon also committed that he would "get to the progressive Democrats," but said that "right now it's a season of war against the GOP establishment."
Bannon laid out his plans to back challengers to establishment Republicans in Congress for the 2018 midterm elections in an interview earlier this week.
"There's a coalition coming together that is going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz," Bannon told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Monday.
Bannon rallied for former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Senate GOP runoff last month. Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange, who was endorsed by Trump and congressional Republicans.
Trump surpassed the necessary 270 electoral votes in the Electoral College to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Trump won 304 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 227.
“Has President Trump endorsed Sen. Cruz’s opponent since you claim he helped to elect Hillary ?”
Sadly not, but I do plan to vote for that opponent, whoever he/she is, both in March, and in November.
As they say, what goes around, comes around.
(of course Cruz could apologize for his behavior at the convention and thereby get my vote, but he won’t)
So you will be voting against President Trump’s preferred choice of Sen. Cruz and for the ultraleft Beetle O’Cuck ?
...unless Cruz APOLOGIZES to Trump for not supporting him last year. Yes.
No, but don’t care. Trump had enough problems with Democrats trying to win, he didn’t Cruz there sniping at him from behind.
He did support and endorse him. You keep proliferating a falsehood, Bob.
Really had his heart in it, can tell by the wording. Get back to me when he APOLOGIZES to Trump for calling him a FAKE CONSERVATIVE.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/16/cruz-blasts-trump-fake-conservative/
Note the date, Bob. You have an article from January 2016. Sen. Cruz made his formal endorsement in September 2016.
You’ve been repeatedly stating a falsehood that Cruz did not endorse Trump and compounding it by claiming he “all but endorsed” Hillary.
Whatever animosity the two had, it’s been buried. You need to bury your hatred for Sen. Cruz and help our President put this country back on track. He supports Sen. Cruz and his reelection, and you need to follow suit.
Has Cruz RETRACTED...and no, a half-hearted, tepid, ‘endorsement’ is not a retraction.
Admitting he was wrong about Trump is.
Let it go, Bob.
Voting against Sen. Cruz means voting against President Trump. Just remember that.
Not if we take Cruz out in the Primary. There are plenty of Republicans in Texas who don’t carry his baggage.
The President does not want him “taken out”, Bob. He supports him 100%. The only people running against Sen. Cruz come from the left.
Trump didn’t want Strange to lose either, as Strange voted with him every time...no difference.
Apples and oranges, Bob. Cruz is opposed by the Establishment. A vote against Cruz in the primary is a vote for an Establishment RINO and against the President.
Can I have a hit of whatever Bannon is taking?
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