Steve Bannon Offered to Stump for Ed Gillespie But Was Rebuffed by the Campaign

Washington Examiner ^ | nov 8 2017 1:17 | Naomi Lim

[drewh]

Steve Bannon offered to stump for Republican candidate for Virginia governor, Ed Gillespie, but Gillespie's campaign declined, according to multiple reports.

The decision, which preceded Democratic opponent Lt. Governor Ralph Northam trouncing Gillespie at the polls on Tuesday, left Bannon's camp fuming, per the ABC.

Bannon was also frustrated with Gillespie's refusal to appear on his Breitbart radio show or do any interviews with the conservative media outlet.

“Ed Gillespie had no message, was inauthentic, spoke from both sides of his mouth, and at the end of the day, even the deplorables couldn’t save him,” Andrew Surabian, Bannon’s political adviser, told the Daily Beast on Tuesday. “Gillespie campaigned with George Bush, but ran from President Trump.”

The lobbyist, former Republican National Committee chair, and President George W. Bush administration alum did not go “full Trump,” Surabian said.

Despite embracing President Trump via rallying points, like preserving Confederate statues, dismantling sanctuary cities, and criticizing NFL player protesters, Gillespie did not appear alongside the president on the trail.

Though Trump recorded a robocall and tweeted in support of Gillespie in recent days, he quickly distanced himself from the candidate after his election loss. He "did not embrace me or what I stand for," Trump tweeted Tuesday night.

Bannon has said he is waging war against the Republican establishment, backing successful insurgent candidate Roy Moore over Trump's choice Luther Strange in the GOP's Alabama Senate primary.

[OttawaFreeper]

The more and more details like this come out, the more we learn that this guy Gillespie basically defeated himself as opposed to the Dems.

[TakebackGOP]

Wow!

[BurrOh]

Sorry Gillespie. You don’t get it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Amnesty Ed has always been in favor of the very open borders policies that have turned the once beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia into the garbage dump of the world’s castoffs.
Demography is destiny and GHW Bush decided decades ago that the USA was going to be a bilingual Hispanic country.
Gillespie was part of that cabal.
It was during the GWB terms that MS-13 appeared in Virginia and whole sections were turned into barrios.

[drewh]

too little too late for ed. he was gaining ground the last few days when he started to embrace the populist movement!

[Reverend Wright]

Gillespie. Fake immigration hawk. Fake conservative.

As fake as the Bushes reading from a script written by Lee Atwater.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

A swamp creature of the highest order. Sucks to basically turn that state over to the Democrats permanently, but it’s so overrun with lobbyists, illegal aliens and leftists, it’s basically a lost cause anyways.

[Dustoff45]

Sorry Gillespie. You don’t get it.

Proof of his being a Never Trumper.

Invited onto the trump train and refused. He stood on the tracks by himself and the train ran over him.

I voted for Gillespie in the same mode as voting for McCain and Romney. Well, at least I voted.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Gillespie basically defeated himself...”

Gillespie got a higher percentage of Virginia voters than Trump got.

Trump - 44.4% - 2016

Gillespie - 45.0% - 2017

[jmaroneps37]

“But with a little bit of luck he won’t be home....!” Stevie KNEW they would say no and they did. Ha ha ha way to go Steve; a risk worth taking.

[Hojczyk]

If you want votes from Trump supporters you better sound like Trump and work like Trump...the GOP con is over with the Trump supporters..My bet no tax cuts from the GOP..

[Rational Thought]

The GOPe has a long history of being most comfortable playing the role of the minority party. They belong to the same Swamp as their Democrat cousins.

If the Gillespie campaign had welcomed the President's help or Brannon's, the results from yesterday may have been different. But, that would have come with a price.

The GOPe has a common enemy with their pals and is happier with the results than the alternative.

[OttawaFreeper]

Yes, and he was probably still in the margin for the fraud as well.

[Arthur McGowan]

Gillespie is a member of the Bush murder sybdicate. No loss.

[Zhang Fei]

Amnesty Ed has always been in favor of the very open borders policies that have turned the once beautiful Commonwealth of Virginia into the garbage dump of the world’s castoffs.

You gotta admit - that's a pretty high household income garbage dump:

Median Household Income by State (Note that table does not reflect the margin of error in the values)

Rank	State	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
1	Maryland	$75,847	73,971	$72,483	$71,122	$70,004
	District of Columbia†	$75,628	71,648	$67,572	$66,583	$63,124
2	Hawaii	$73,486	69,592	$68,020	$66,259	$61,821
3	Alaska	$73,355	71,583	$72,237	$67,712	$67,825
4	New Jersey	$72,222	71,919	$70,165	$69,667	$67,458
5	Connecticut	$71,346	70,048	$67,098	$67,276	$65,753
6	Massachusetts	$70,628	69,160	$66,768	$65,339	$62,859
7	New Hampshire	$70,303	66,532	$64,230	$63,280	$62,647
8	Virginia	$66,262	64,902	$62,666	$61,741	$61,882
9	California	$64,500	61,933	$60,190	$58,328	$57,287
10	Washington	$64,129	61,366	$58,405	$57,573	$56,835
11	Colorado	$63,909	61,303	$58,823	$56,765	$55,387
12	Minnesota	$63,488	61,481	$60,702	$58,906	$56,954
13	Utah	$62,912	60,922	$59,770	$57,049	$55,869
14	Delaware	$61,255	59,716	$57,846	$58,415	$58,814
15	New York	$60,850	58,878	$57,369	$56,448	$55,246
16	North Dakota	$60,557	59,029	$55,759	$53,585	$51,704
17	Wyoming	$60,214	57,055	$58,752	$54,901	$56,322
18	Illinois	$59,588	57,444	$56,210	$55,137	$53,234
19	Rhode Island	$58,073	54,891	$55,902	$54,554	$53,636
20	Vermont	$56,990	54,166	$52,578	$52,977	$52,776
	United States	$55,775	53,657	$52,250	$51,371	$50,502
21	Pennsylvania	$55,702	53,234	$52,007	$51,230	$50,228
22	Texas	$55,653	53,035	$51,704	$50,740	$49,392
23	Wisconsin	$55,638	52,622	$51,467	$51,059	$50,395
24	Nebraska	$54,996	52,686	$51,440	$50,723	$50,296
25	Iowa	$54,736	53,712	$52,229	$50,957	$49,427
26	Oregon	$54,148	51,075	$50,251	$49,161	$46,816
27	Kansas	$53,906	52,504	$50,972	$50,241	$48,964
28	South Dakota	$53,017	50,979	$48,947	$48,362	$48,321
29	Nevada	$52,431	51,450	$51,230	$49,760	$48,927
30	Maine	$51,494	49,462	$46,974	$46,709	$46,033
31	Arizona	$51,492	50,068	$48,510	$47,826	$46,709
32	Georgia	$51,244	49,321	$47,829	$47,209	$46,007
33	Michigan	$51,084	49,847	$48,273	$46,859	$45,981
34	Ohio	$51,075	49,308	$48,081	$46,829	$45,749
35	Indiana	$50,532	49,446	$47,529	$46,974	$46,438
36	Missouri	$50,238	48,363	$46,931	$45,321	$45,247
37	Montana	$49,509	46,328	$46,972	$45,076	$44,222
38	Florida	$49,426	47,463	$46,036	$45,040	$44,299
39	Oklahoma	$48,568	47,529	$45,690	$44,312	$43,225
40	Idaho	$48,275	47,861	$46,783	$45,489	$43,341
41	North Carolina	$47,830	46,556	$45,906	$45,150	$43,916
42	Tennessee	$47,275	44,361	$44,297	$42,764	$41,693
43	South Carolina	$47,238	45,238	$44,163	$43,107	$42,367
44	Louisiana	$45,727	44,555	$44,164	$42,944	$41,734
45	New Mexico	$45,382	44,803	$43,872	$42,558	$41,963
46	Kentucky	$45,215	42,958	$43,399	$41,724	$41,141
47	Alabama	$44,765	42,830	$42,849	$41,574	$41,415
48	West Virginia	$42,019	41,059	$41,253	$40,196	$38,482
49	Arkansas	$41,995	41,262	$40,511	$40,112	$38,758
50	Mississippi	$40,593	39,680	$37,963	$37,095	$36,919
	Puerto Rico†	$18,626	18,928	$19,183	$19,429	$18,660

States ranked by per capita income

Rank	State	Per capita income	Median household income	Median family income	Population	Number of households	Number of families
	District of Columbia†	$45,877	$71,648	$84,094	658,893	277,378	117,864
1	Connecticut	$39,373	$70,048	$88,819	3,596,677	1,355,817	887,263
2	New Jersey	$37,288	$69,160	$87,951	8,938,175	2,549,336	1,610,581
3	Massachusetts	$36,593	$71,919	$88,419	6,938,608	3,194,844	2,203,675
4	Maryland	$36,338	$73,971	$89,678	5,976,407	2,165,438	1,445,972
5	New Hampshire	$34,691	$66,532	$80,581	1,326,813	519,756	345,901
6	Virginia	$34,052	$64,902	$78,290	8,326,289	3,083,820	2,058,820
7	New York	$33,095	$58,878	$71,115	19,746,227	7,282,398	4,621,954
8	North Dakota	$33,071	$59,029	$75,221	739,482	305,431	187,800
9	Alaska	$33,062	$71,583	$82,307	736,732	249,659	165,015
10	Minnesota	$32,638	$61,481	$77,941	5,457,173	2,129,195	1,369,594
11	Colorado	$32,357	$61,303	$75,405	5,355,866	2,039,592	1,315,283
12	Washington	$31,841	$61,366	$74,193	7,061,530	2,679,601	1,725,099
13	Rhode Island	$30,830	$54,891	$71,212	1,055,173	409,654	257,165
14	Delaware	$30,488	$59,716	$72,594	935,614	349,743	233,000
15	California	$30,441	$61,933	$71,015	38,802,500	12,758,648	8,762,059
16	Illinois	$30,417	$57,444	$71,796	12,880,580	4,772,421	3,099,184
17	Hawaii	$29,736	$69,592	$79,187	1,419,561	450,769	314,151
18	Wyoming	$29,698	$57,055	$72,460	584,153	232,594	149,032
19	Pennsylvania	$29,220	$53,234	$67,876	12,787,209	4,945,972	3,185,054
20	Vermont	$29,178	$54,166	$67,154	626,562	257,229	162,017
	United States	$28,889	$53,657	$65,910	318,857,056	117,259,427	77,152,072
21	Iowa	$28,361	$53,712	$67,771	3,107,126	1,241,471	801,562
22	Wisconsin	$28,213	$52,622	$67,187	5,757,564	2,307,685	1,485,877
23	Maine	$27,978	$49,462	$62,078	1,330,089	549,841	344,585
24	Kansas	$27,870	$52,504	$66,425	2,904,021	1,109,280	728,602
25	Oregon	$27,646	$51,075	$62,670	3,970,239	1,535,511	966,250
26	Nebraska	$27,446	$52,686	$66,120	1,881,503	740,765	480,317
27	Texas	$27,125	$53,035	$62,830	26,956,958	9,277,197	6,407,165
28	South Dakota	$26,959	$50,979	$66,936	853,175	334,475	211,235
29	Ohio	$26,937	$49,308	$62,300	11,594,163	4,593,172	2,923,523
30	Michigan	$26,613	$49,847	$62,143	9,909,877	3,834,574	2,485,159
31	Florida	$26,582	$47,463	$57,212	19,893,297	7,328,046	4,693,411
32	Missouri	$26,126	$48,363	$61,299	6,063,589	2,354,809	1,508,816
33	Montana	$25,989	$46,328	$60,643	1,023,579	410,962	251,176
34	North Carolina	$25,774	$46,556	$57,380	9,943,964	3,790,620	2,492,048
35	Nevada	$25,773	$51,450	$60,824	2,839,099	1,021,519	642,461
36	Arizona	$25,715	$50,068	$59,700	6,731,484	2,428,743	1,579,481
37	Georgia	$25,615	$49,321	$58,885	10,097,343	3,587,521	2,426,392
38	Oklahoma	$25,229	$47,529	$58,710	3,878,051	1,459,759	966,516
39	Indiana	$25,140	$49,446	$60,780	6,596,855	2,502,739	1,657,223
40	Tennessee	$24,922	$44,361	$55,557	6,549,352	2,509,665	1,660,344
41	Utah	$24,877	$60,922	$69,535	2,942,902	918,370	691,495
42	Louisiana	$24,800	$44,555	$56,573	4,649,676	1,718,194	1,112,659
43	South Carolina	$24,596	$45,238	$56,491	4,832,482	1,826,914	1,201,616
44	Idaho	$23,938	$47,861	$58,101	1,634,464	591,587	407,499
45	Kentucky	$23,684	$42,958	$54,776	4,413,457	1,712,094	1,124,586
46	New Mexico	$23,683	$44,803	$54,705	2,085,572	760,916	489,532
47	Alabama	$23,606	$42,830	$53,764	4,849,377	1,841,217	1,232,515
48	Arkansas	$22,883	$41,262	$51,528	2,966,369	1,131,288	752,212
49	West Virginia	$22,714	$41,059	$52,413	1,850,326	735,375	472,869
50	Mississippi	$21,036	$39,680	$50,178	2,994,079	1,095,823	738,463
	Puerto Rico†	$11,241	$18,928	$22,477	3,548,397	1,233,490	867,505

[MountainWalker]

I get why people want to spin this defeat, but there’s nothing wrong with being honest about things: Virginia is now heavily populated with government workers who will never vote Republican. It is not a normal state in that regard - MD is the only one like it. There are plenty of other states with more gettable voters. It sucks for those of us who live in VA, but it’s time for national R’s to cut bait. It’s not any kind of bellwether state anymore, so it’s not worth paying any attention to.

[Zhang Fei]

Virginia is now heavily populated with government workers who will never vote Republican. It is not a normal state in that regard - MD is the only one like it.

Precisely...

[Forgotten Amendments]

Gillespie. Fake immigration hawk. Fake conservative.

And fake Virginian. A horrible candidate.

And if the conservative had won the primary, the VA establishment would've sabotaged him like they always do. Well, they got their boy this time & look what happened.

[drewh]

Alfred P. Doolittle!