Posted on 10/11/2017 12:02:48 PM PDT by Mariner
Republicans on Capitol Hill fear that Stephen Bannon’s plan to wage primary challenges against incumbent senators will put their majority at risk in 2018.
Senate GOP aides warn that Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, is not motivated by a desire to advance President Trump’s agenda, but instead by a quest to remake the GOP in his own, nationalist image.
“If anyone misunderstands what Steve Bannon’s goal is, they have to open their eyes. He doesn’t care if we win or lose the Senate. He doesn’t care about the consequences for the president,” said one Senate Republican aide.
“Mr. Bannon, it seems clear, does not care about Republicans maintaining their majority in either chamber. He’s putting his former boss’s agenda on the line in his quest of take over and destroy the Republican Party,” the source added.
Bannon did not respond to an email summarizing the criticism of Senate GOP aides.
The former White House adviser this week said he is working to field primary challengers against incumbents such as Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Deb Fischer DEBRA (DEB) STROBEL FISCHER (R-Neb.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). None are considered at risk of losing their reelection races.
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Evil Bannon evil evil evilevil...................
GOODY!!!! Goody for HIM. Goody for US!!
The majority is useless if it is a majority in name only.
I wonder how many are still in the Senate
that were there and did not find BJ clinton guilty
at his impeachment trial.
I’ll have to research that.
That’s the idea ... we want to end the majority the Uniparty Swamp Creatures currently hold.
Republicans are IDIOTS! Bannon’s their only hope. If we don’t have MAGA candidates running in 2018 the President’s base will largely sit the election out.
If in 2018 the states would go the same way they did for Trump in 2016 then the Republicans should pick up nine seats. And these wusses are talking about losing? I think they really like just a narrow majority so they have an excuse for failing.
I support Mr. Bannon.
The old farts from the GOPee can see my tagline for any questions.
Juan McCain will soon be racing towards his last “live” interview.
If the Trump agenda wins back the White working class, especially in the Midwest and Upper Midwest, the Dems will never win another national election.
Two things: check my tag line; and John Galt didn’t just wait for it to collapse. He did what he could to speed it up.
There is more to going Galt than just tuning out.
And ‘they’ said that Trump was fighting a losing battle with the NFL. These people don’t get what or who they’re really fighting. Trump and Bannon get it.
I’m thinking the same thing. They are really going to insult us and use the “majority” thing when they have the “majority” thing and they do nothing?
I ain’t biting. If I’m forced to vote democrat in 2018 it will be because the R’s proved they are the lying part of the #uniparty. At least the democrats admit who they are.
The Senate is already a do nothing hateful waste.
I choose Bannon’s idea!
Open primaries, and far too many refugee Californians and retiree Easterners who register GOP but vote for the gimmees at every opportunity.
Trump does NOT have the majority today.
It’s a FAKE majority.
Bannon is going to purge a lot of these frauds and help get us a true majority in January 2019.
Bannon putting Senate majority at risk in 2018, Republicans warnHow would we be able to tell the difference?
IOW, they're scared shitless
When the GOPe found out that Steve Bannon was going to support conservative Republicans running for Congress - they flipped their lids.
fool
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