Steve Bannon: Republican knives out for ex-Trump aide

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Republicans are lashing out at former White House strategist Steve Bannon after the party's stunning election loss in Alabama.

New York congressman Pete King urged the party to "dump" Mr Bannon, saying: "His act is tired, inane and morally vacuous."

The Breitbart News chief is blamed for egging on President Donald Trump to back Roy Moore, who lost on Tuesday.

Mr Bannon vowed in October to challenge "every Republican incumbent"

He was a passionate supporter of Mr Moore, an ultra-conservative former judge who crashed to defeat in Republicans' first loss in Alabama in 25 years.
Media captionWhat the Alabama upset will mean for Donald Trump's agenda

But despite all the criticism, Mr Bannon is defiant.

An unnamed source close to him told Bloomberg: "This doesn't stop Steve's war against the establishment.

"All it does is pour gasoline on top of it."

Representative King launched a highly personal attack on Mr Bannon on Wednesday morning.


The Republican congressman tweeted: "After Alabama disaster GOP [the Republican party] must do right thing and DUMP Steve Bannon."

He added: "If we are to Make America Great Again for all Americans, Bannon must go! And go NOW!!"

Mr King later appeared on CNN to say the former Trump adviser " looks like some kind of dishevelled drunk that wandered onto the political stage", even though Mr Bannon reportedly abstains from alcohol.

The congressman also attacked Mr Bannon's "weird alt-right views", which he said did not represent conservative values.



He added that he blames the election loss in Alabama on voters' "revulsion" towards Mr Bannon.

Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger referred to Mr Bannon as a "RINO", a derogatory term meaning Republican in name only.

"His morally inept strategies are unwelcome here. #YoureFired," Mr Kinzinger tweeted.

Steve Law, president of the Senate Leadership Fund, a political group aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, piled in, too.

"Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country, but he also dragged the president of the United States into his fiasco," he said in a statement.

"This is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running."


Mr Bannon has recently set his targets on Mr McConnell, whom he views as lukewarm on the president's so-called America First strategy.

The editorial board of the National Review, a conservative magazine, called Mr Bannon a "cut-rate Svengali... who never met a disreputable political candidate he didn't like".

The former Trump strategist was widely credited with honing Mr Trump's populist appeal in last year's election campaign.

Mr Bannon left the White House in August to help Mr Trump's administration as "a wingman outside" by returning to his role as head of right-wing Breitbart News, he said.

But in Alabama's Republican primary election he backed ultraconservative former judge Roy Moore, finding himself at odds with his former boss.

Mr Trump had backed a mainstream Republican, Luther Strange, who lost.

Some in Washington began to see Mr Bannon as a potential "king-maker" for the party.

Mr Trump later endorsed Mr Moore during his contest against Democrat Doug Jones, who won by a razor thin margin on Tuesday night.

The Washington Post reported that Mr Trump made his decision after a long discussion with his former aide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42343509


LOL HE DOES LOOK LIKE SOME RANDOM DRUNK..



"Um.. do you have a backstage pass sir?"

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When America was "great"

Too late. His party conceived that disheveled, morally vacuous drunkard, raised it, and gave it a megaphone. The GOP then praised and fed it when its odious and stupid screeds brought the support of millions of equally odious and stupid supporters out of their trailers and bass boats to vote.

Bannon is the THE face, voice, and ideology of today's Republican party.

Bannon is the THE face, voice, and ideology of today's Republican party.


100%

He moved the Republican party to the white Power side and it has taken hold.

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I was right.

haha this is so spot on and sickening its funny, way to go jerks, breitfart news the headpiece of the USA- I prefer the inquirer myself but maybe next year!

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I troll 2L.com to be a better person in real life

They'd still love him if Moore had won, if it hadn't come out that he liked little girls.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

There's no one happier about the Jones win than McConnell.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

He is the face of the party. The white power part is BS though. The party appeals to whites for the simple reason that the dems have abandon them for their favored brown people. Pretty stupid move, but it is progs that we are talking about and is to be expected.

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I'd toss him a buck if I saw him on the street. Poor bastard is clearly down on his luck.

Some might discourage me, and say he's just going to buy liquor; but I'm a socialist so I'd try to help anyway.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

All Repugs aren't racists, but all racists are repugs. If your Klanish party is so minority friendly, please explain how you treated O like schitt for 8 years? "He's a Kenyan. He's a mooslim. He's not 'Merkin. We'll make sure he's a one term pres."
You and the rest of YOUR KIND on here are culpable as well.

And despite all that, he got us out of the financial disaster that your last UNELECTED president got us into.

How did we treat him like shit? Don't think we treated him like shit differently than we treat anyone else like shit.

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Does anybody take Tpapski seriously anymore?

The snarky contrarian act has gotten so moronic at this point, he's a self parody

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When America was "great"