March 19, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| And that's why patriots have to put their shoulder to the wheel. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin. | |
| They can't handle the truth. | ||
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War Room, Battleground. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| It's Friday, 18 March, Year of Our Lord 2022. | ||
| You're in the Battleground. | ||
| We've got a bunch of combatants today. | ||
| And the first two I'm proud to announce are Anthony Sabatini. | ||
| Anthony is running in Florida 7 for the U.S. | ||
| House of Representatives. | ||
| Also I have Boris Epstein. | ||
| Boris is going to be with me for the entire hour. | ||
| We got Sloane Rathmuth down in North Carolina on an evolving situation regarding social-emotional learning. | ||
| We got Dan Schultz. | ||
| Out of Arizona. | ||
| Tucson today really called it. | ||
| They made it so that poll workers and poll watchers have to be fully vaccinated. | ||
| So there's no depths of what the opposition will not stoop to to make sure that they don't have the MAGA team show up. | ||
| We're going to get into all of that. | ||
| I want to go to Boris. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| I know you've been down in meetings in South Florida the entire time. | ||
| You're back up on the East Coast now. | ||
| I really want to thank you. | ||
| We've got a lot to go through, a lot of wood to chop, but I had to ask Anthony. | ||
| One of the biggest things we've been talking about, folks, and Anthony Sabatini is in this fight up to his neck, and that is redistricting in Florida. | ||
| You're running in Florida 7. | ||
| There couldn't be a bigger issue for MAGA, for the Trump movement, in getting it right and having Governor DeSantis' back. | ||
| Can you walk us through exactly where we stand with this? | ||
| Because Sununu in New Hampshire just came out yesterday and says, hey, I don't want to actually approve a district for the Republicans. | ||
| I want both to be balanced so people can fight it out. | ||
| What is happening in the great state of Florida with the Governor Ron DeSantis, sir? | ||
| Well, first of all, thanks for having me on, Steve. | ||
| Quite literally, we are in the middle of a battle happening in real time between the old guard of the Republican Party and the new fighters. | ||
| I stand firmly with the governor. | ||
| I'm a state legislator currently in the state legislature while I'm running for Congress. | ||
| You know, I'm voting on maps that are being pushed forward by the state legislature, which are not good for the state of Florida, not good for our country. | ||
| Our governor saw that the situation was so bad that he himself had to go and create new congressional maps to get the legislature to take a look at and hopefully vote on. | ||
| Well, the legislature has pushed back on the governor and still continue to go forward with what's being called an 18 to 10 map. | ||
| It's a map that's very, very good for very far-left Democrats, and it has partisan intent built into it because it's trying to help Democrats. | ||
| The single most controversial part of it is a racially gerrymandered Democrat seat that was created by a Supreme Court decision here in the state of Florida, the state Supreme Court, seven years ago, that doesn't need to exist. | ||
| Our governor is pushing back. | ||
| Now, they just finished the legislative session on Monday, so the governor is about to get the budget soon. | ||
| I'm hoping that the governor says if you guys don't fix the situation that you created, I'm hoping the governor just goes forward and actually vetoes the entire budget because this is such an important task for the legislature. | ||
| Right now, the governor is one of the only people fighting. | ||
| Only seven of us in the state legislature voted against the bad maps put forth by the state legislature, and we're expecting an emergency special session to be called in the next few weeks where we have an opportunity to debate and put forth the governor's congressional map. | ||
| Boris, jump in here a second. Let me just take the first shot. Here's what I don't understand. | ||
| Here's what I think you got to explain to not just the good folks in Florida, but throughout the country. And remember, we're a global show. Why would the state legislature, given where the demographics and the census came out, why wouldn't you have this common sense, which fair people like you and Governor Sanchez are laying out? | ||
| Why has this map even started, I think, worse than 1810? | ||
| What is the old guard? | ||
| What's the problem? | ||
| Are they afraid of being called, I don't know, racist? | ||
| Are they cutting deals up in Tallahassee on sidebar deals? | ||
| I think people are kind of stunned of how it got to this situation where you now have to probably call a special session. | ||
| Anthony Sabatini. | ||
| Funny enough, I think you just nailed the two top reasons. | ||
| Number one, I think this is what describes pretty much every kind of rhino Republican. | ||
| They're afraid of being called mean names. | ||
| They're afraid of the media. | ||
| They're afraid of being attacked by the left. | ||
| And in this case, being called racist or corrupt or anything. | ||
| So they're just saying, you know what, we're going to do maps that are out of the way to help liberal Democrats just to avoid criticism. | ||
| That's a failed strategy. | ||
| Appeasement doesn't work. | ||
| It's very silly, but that's what they're doing. | ||
| Number two, I personally think that there's some special interest money, dark money being exchanged, and there's no reason why they would go out of their way to do such terrible maps. | ||
| Now remember, we have a state senate and a state house. | ||
| When this whole thing started, the state senate, the upper house, put forth maps that were so bad, people were laughing out loud. | ||
| They couldn't believe they were really put forth. | ||
| They were better for the Democrats than the maps we already have right now. | ||
| The house tried to stake out a so-called middle position between the good maps the governor had, And the Senate maps, but I got to tell you, they're still not good enough. | ||
| In fact, even though they're good in my area, it wouldn't give me an avenue to Congress. | ||
| It does create a Republican seat here in central Florida and the greater Orlando area. | ||
| It's very bad in the Tampa Bay and Jacksonville area. | ||
| In fact, they're so bad, you know, it would be good this year in this red wave year. | ||
| But if you look at how Andrew Gillum and DeSantis turned out, how that election turned out in 2018, If you look and if you exchange the nominees in each of the congressional elections for DeSantis and Gillum, that would have actually been, this would have been an actual 14 to 14 map. | ||
| So if you don't have a big boost in a red year, you're looking at a perfectly so-called equal map that actually gives Democrats way better performance than they have under the current standards. | ||
| So these are not great maps. | ||
| The governor has serious legal concerns with them. | ||
| Hold it, hold it, hold it. | ||
| Anthony, you're being charitable. | ||
| Florida is the heart of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Florida is attracting more and more MAGA people ever. | ||
| Obviously, President Trump is from there. | ||
| Governor DeSantis, another warrior. | ||
| People like yourself. | ||
| To even have a concept that we could have something that comes out 14-14, and to put it in perspective, as the audience knows, in New York State, which I think now is down to 26, they've taken five away. | ||
| When the Democrats roll, it's 23-3 in New York State. | ||
| The Democrats, whether it's Illinois, New York, Maryland, you name it, they play pure smash mouth. | ||
| If they see a potential seat, they take it. | ||
| How could we possibly? | ||
| Even conceptually have something that it could have been 14-14, and now you and DeSantis are fighting something that's fair at 28. | ||
| This is what I think people don't understand. | ||
| How is that even possible? | ||
| It's possible because a lot of people just don't pay enough attention to what happens at their state-level politics. | ||
| There's this culture of just watching D.C. | ||
| and the federal government and all the problems we have there, but really not focusing enough on the state legislatures. | ||
| Whether it be election integrity, immigration, there's a lot of issues where the states lead, and this, this mapmaking, this redistricting, is obviously just a state issue, and people need to be more engaged. | ||
| You know, a lot of Republicans who I serve with in the legislature knew these maps were bad, knew that they had legal issues and wanted to vote no. | ||
| But they just didn't have the courage to do it. | ||
| The reason is the state legislative leadership, which is very milquetoast, very moderate, was actually threatening and whipping the votes on the maps just a few weeks ago. | ||
| There were people who were being told they're going to have their projects removed from the budget and they're going to have all their bills killed, lose committee assignments, etc. | ||
| So they were whipped into shape. | ||
| Only seven of us had the courage to stand up to uh... the bad forces in the state republican party in the party bosses but many of them did it now like i said there's going to be a special session and i'm really hoping that every four-in gets engaged in demands a better map set that the governor's already put forth because this legislature is really put it's a really bad spot and i agree with you where the tip of the spear we have a reputation to uphold and if this thing doesn't work out the way it should uh... we're gonna lose that | ||
| and this was the uh... or someone should be there go jump in because of the week here of the timing on the special session of what the local the deliberations are going to be like What's the horse trading? | ||
| This audience is all signal, no noise, right? | ||
| So, we want to go in the room. | ||
| Take us in the room of how this discussion is going to be taking place and what the inside baseball is going to be like. | ||
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Sure, absolutely. | |
| So here's what happened. | ||
| Two weeks ago, they passed the map, right? | ||
| Now, this is sort of minutiae, but it's important to point out. | ||
| Two maps, one that's better for the governor's idea of what he wants, and one that's not. | ||
| The truth is they're almost identical maps, and it doesn't matter which one they are. | ||
| They put a provision in law saying if one gets struck down, they'll take the other. | ||
| Key takeaway? | ||
| It's basically the same map. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| So, fast forward. | ||
| When a bill passes, they give it to the governor and the governor is already bound to veto this. | ||
| In this instance, even though the bill has passed, the map has passed, they won't give it to the governor because they know the governor is going to veto it. | ||
| So here we are 90 days before qualifying and the governor doesn't have the bill aka the map to veto yet. | ||
| So we're in this weird limbo where we don't know exactly what's happening but I have a pretty good feeling that next week we're gonna have a lot more knowledge. | ||
| I personally believe that the governor is going to call the special session sometime in the next seven days. | ||
| But I really believe that, you know, one of his hand is his best qualities is he listens to the people and he reacts to the people and our movement. | ||
| And I think people need to be loud and actually make sure that this special session is called sooner rather than later. | ||
| So that way, when it is called, we can just pass the governor's map. | ||
| This is so easy. | ||
| It's been a slow pitch. | ||
| The governor slow pitched it to the legislature and somehow they still screwed it up and it can still get fixed. | ||
| Okay, so what can this audience do to force the point? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, what do we what do we do? What can this audience do? Yeah, go ahead That's the question Well the first thing do and be what the realistic you know the exact timing you think could be on the special session The first thing that could happen and it's really important is that people are blowing up the phones of every legislator especially the key state legislative leaders the Speaker of the House and the Senate president who are decidedly moderate and | ||
| and actually just who are out of their minds on this issue, demanding this special session. | ||
| Number two, being vocal and public in their show of support for the Governor and his maps, and just making sure that every Republican is calling for it. | ||
| Now, the truth of the matter is, if all the Republicans in the House were calling for it, they could override the state legislative leadership and actually demand a special session. | ||
| So that's the biggest thing right now is just being strong in their communication and their signaling and making sure these folks know what's going on and that they demand an emergency special session. | ||
| It can happen as early as next week or the week after, which is where I think it actually could take place. | ||
| As early as next week or week after? | ||
| I mean, that's huge. | ||
| That's major. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| It's major. | ||
| And the only thing that's keeping it from happening is A lot of people can play a major role in influencing those decisions. | ||
| This is really the key time. | ||
| I think we need to do this as soon as we can and a lot of people can play a major role in influencing those decisions. | ||
| This is really the key time, this week, next week and the week after. | ||
| I love that. | ||
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Okay, we're going to get these numbers up so we can participate. | |
| Boris, you sent me something earlier. | ||
| I've got to ask Anthony about it before he punches out. | ||
| Stephanie Murphy, who is kind of a rock star in the Democratic Party, a moderate, she throws in the towel and she puts the Democratic Party on blast on the show she went on. | ||
| What has happened to the state of Florida that is now pure MAGA, that even somebody like Stephanie Murphy would say, I'm not going to be able to make it, I don't want to go out a loser, so I'm going to jump out of here, because she is considered a player in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Anthony Sabatini. | ||
| So this congressional map set, the seat that was most likely to be fixed from the old set of maps, That a very liberal state Supreme Court decision created was District 7, my seat. | ||
| So I'm running for the Stephanie Murphy seat. | ||
| Everybody knew that the sort of jacked up seat that the state court created was never going to continue to be in existence. | ||
| So she dropped out. | ||
| She saw the walls moving in. | ||
| Now she's blaming it on, oh, the Democratic Party is going in a more radical direction. | ||
| I think she actually does believe that. | ||
| But the real reason she's dropping out now is she had an inevitable loss coming her way based on redistricting. | ||
| And then, of course, this red wave that's around the corner, as long as we don't lose it. | ||
| So that's the key thing about that seat. | ||
| The other three seats that were expected to pick up for the Republican Party are what's hanging in the ballots. | ||
| You know, Florida should have gotten four seats, two districts that were gerrymandered by this old state Supreme Court. | ||
| One brand new seat and then, of course, one very controversially racially gerrymandered seat in Jacksonville held by Democrat Al Lawson. | ||
| So only one really is looking good for us right now, and that's my seat. | ||
| So I could very easily just sit here and vote on the maps and live my life and win the seat and be happy. | ||
| But the truth is I'm in this fight because we need these seats. | ||
| The Republican Party needs these seats. | ||
| And what they're doing is just ridiculous. | ||
| And we need to get in the fight. | ||
| We need to make sure that Florida upholds its reputation. | ||
| Anthony, how do people find out more about you and your campaign? | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Sabatini4Congress.com, and of course I'm on every social media platform from Getter and all the mainstream ones in between, S-A-B-A-T-I-N-I, Sabatini. | ||
| Anthony, I think for everybody in the Trump movement, everybody throughout the country, and really all Americans, we want to thank you for fighting this good fight. | ||
| This has been a tough one down there. | ||
| I mean, this has been a dogfight from day one. | ||
| You really had to go up and stand up against the establishment, so thank you very much for your courage, sir. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| Keep up the fight and I really appreciate the opportunity. | ||
| You got it, Anthony. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Thanks, brother. | ||
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Anthony Sabatini. | |
| So, Boris, give us your assessment. | ||
| I mean, here's what concerns me. | ||
| Hang on, let me lay my cards on the table. | ||
| If you don't have Ron DeSantis and Anthony Sabatini and a couple guys like Sabatini who are all hammers, this thing goes the other way. | ||
| You could have ended up with a 14-14. | ||
| This is absurd. | ||
| This is the problem with the Republican Party. | ||
| This is the problem with the rhinos that get in these fat cats. | ||
| It is mind-boggling that you can go from a 28, and here's what gets all over me. | ||
| The Democratic Party runs it like you should run it. | ||
| In New York City, Boris, it's smash mouth. | ||
| In the state of New York, the Empire State, we're going to end up with, what, three congressional seats somewhere in upstate New York? | ||
| Three congressional seats on the gerrymandering? | ||
| New York and California combined, the Republicans are going to have seven seats. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| Seven seats. | ||
| Because the Democrats play Smash Mouth. | ||
| Boris, next week in special session, what does this audience have to do, you think? | ||
| That's the big news that came out of this interview, right? | ||
| That's why I'm always inside baseball and signal not noise for this audience. | ||
| What Anthony Sabatini said there is that this special session isn't going to happen in a month or two months. | ||
| This is a next few weeks proposition. | ||
| So we need to have it happen. | ||
| It's for the whole War Room Posse to color within the lines, but color extremely boldly. | ||
| And to reach out to the heads of the House and the Senate in Florida and to Governor DeSantis' office and say, let's have this special session now. | ||
| There's no time to waste. | ||
| Let's get in there now, let's hammer it out, and let's have the map be 20 to 8 as Governor DeSantis That is what we've got to stick to. | ||
| That is a very strong position, and that will be a MAGA win in Florida, just like we've had MAGA wins in Tennessee and Kansas. | ||
| And then the other battlegrounds will be New Hampshire, horrible move by Sununu there, and Missouri, where the Rhinos are still trying to hang on as well. | ||
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Sabatini's too self-effacing a guy, but that, people should understand, Stephanie Murphy punching out is a huge win for us, Boris, because she's considered a rising rock star, right? | |
| She just won! | ||
| She just, she's on, you know, Interpolitico is what I say, and there's a while, only a half a decade later, translation, half a decade's a couple of years! | ||
| She's only been in a couple years. | ||
| They thought that she was a total rising star, could be ready for statewide or national office. | ||
| They were thinking about her potentially for the Senate against Rubio or something like that. | ||
| Instead, she goes and says, hey, you know what? | ||
| Sabatini and others are too tough. | ||
| These districts are too tough. | ||
| And by the way, I'm no longer welcome in the Democrat Party. | ||
| And one thing that was very interesting in the interview she gave, She talks specifically about the special interests on the left who come in and attack their own moderates and go after them. | ||
| So what they're doing on the left, Steve, is they're marginalizing themselves further and further by, A, attacking any moderates, and B, with all the nonsense social justice issues and something that's been on fire, which is what you're seeing in women's sports with the whole transgender thing. | ||
| So the left, the woke liberal socialist left, It's stuffing itself into a tiny little sliver, and it's completely eradicating everything else. | ||
| And that's a great thing for one movement, and that movement is called MAGA. | ||
| And that's why right now, as we've talked about Steve, MAGA is two-thirds of the country and growing. | ||
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Okay, talking exactly about that, I want to bring in Sloane Rathmuth. | |
| There's some breaking news, Boris, out of another battleground state, North Carolina, about exactly these topics. | ||
| She's the president of Education First Alliance. | ||
| She's been on the show many times. | ||
| Sloane, there's some big developments down in North Carolina. | ||
| What's going on? | ||
| Yeah, definitely. | ||
| I mean, last time I was on, we talked, Steve, about not all Republicans being created the same. | ||
| And nowhere is that truer than with our Senate candidate, Pat McCrory, who When he was governor here in 2012, went against the Republican Party and really rammed down Common Core throughout the whole state. | ||
| And now he's got two of his former education appointees, and that would be Eric Davis and our state school superintendent, Catherine Truitt, who seem to be following in his footsteps and now pushing down the noxious critical race theory in our state for the most vulnerable students. | ||
| And that would be disabled three and four year old preschoolers. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| Give us this again. | ||
| They're doing what with the disabled preschoolers? | ||
| Critical race theory and social-emotional learning? | ||
| Well, that's right. | ||
| It's actually critical race theory here in the state that's being paid for with seven million dollars in taxpayer funding to teach three and four-year-olds how to decenter their whiteness. | ||
| I'm not kidding you. | ||
| We've been doing this for a long time and we have never seen a critical race theory program as evil As the one that so-called Republicans have pushed down in North Carolina. | ||
| And again, these are pushed down by two appointees of Pat McCrory who is now running for Senate in the state of North Carolina. | ||
| Boris, I want to bring Boris in for a second, because the reason I want to have Sloan on today while you were the co-host, this is a particularly sensitive area for a guy named Donald J. Trump. | ||
| Am I incorrect in that, or am I correct in that statement, Boris Epstein, about North Carolina and the Senate race? | ||
| Well, it's very important, because the President has endorsed Ted Budd, of course, and the President has said that he's the right man for the job, precisely because of issues like the one you're describing. | ||
| So, you know, it'd be interesting to hear more about how you view this front impacting the Senate election. | ||
| You know, is this something that's been talked about, you know, by the base, or is this something that's widespread in North Carolina right now? | ||
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Well, the base is very concerned about this. | |
| How's this getting out? | ||
| Well, the base is very concerned, I'll tell you, because it's about judgment. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And judgment matters. | ||
| In races like this, judgment matters. | ||
| When you choose RINOs, which the top of our education establishment is RINOs, in my opinion, what you're going to get is the same thing as that you would get from a progressive. | ||
| Critical race theory, social-emotional learning, and we are living through that. | ||
| The two RINOs that, again, were appointees, key appointees, might I add, of Pat McCrory, they are Turning our state into the most progressive state in the country. | ||
| We have chapters in California, Steve and Boris. | ||
| They're not nearly as progressive as North Carolina. | ||
| And that's being done by rhinos who are at the top of the education food chain here in the state. | ||
| Sloan, how do we help you get the word out? | ||
| Go ahead, Boris. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| My question was, where's Ted Budd on this? | ||
| Have you seen him come in? | ||
| Because obviously it's an important issue in a vital race, McCrory versus Budd, and the president's been very direct on who he supports. | ||
| Where's Budd on this? | ||
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Well, Ted Budd has been very strong against critical race theory. | |
| As a matter of fact, him and Dan Bishop, also from North Carolina, proposed legislation that would make critical race theory unlawful in the military. | ||
| But we do have another Senate candidate by the name of Mark Walker. | ||
| He is equally strong on coming out against critical race theory and stopping federal funds from flowing into North Carolina through the state and into the classroom. | ||
| I mean, look, we're very clear here in North Carolina with our organization. | ||
| We do not want D.C. | ||
| and Biden running our local classrooms. | ||
| We need strong leadership to stop that. | ||
| And as you said, Steve, I mean, what we're doing is making sure that we're backing candidates that promise, have a huge fidelity to stopping, to choking off Biden's attempt to influence policy, which he's doing now with copious amounts of federal funding. | ||
| And I'll tell you what, guys, I was at a recent meeting and I asked Pat McCrory, I said, listen, what will you do to choke off the supply of federal funds to stop critical race theory? | ||
| You know what he told me? | ||
| He swore up and down that, oh, funding of critical race theory, that's a local issue. | ||
| I mean, the guy doesn't even realize that he, I'm not even kidding you, he doesn't acknowledge that the Biden administration is, in essence, buying off our state and others to place this noxious curriculum in our schools. | ||
| He doesn't get it. | ||
| Sloan, we gotta bounce. | ||
| People, how did they get to your organization, and how do people have your back? | ||
| The word's gotta get out in the Tar Heel State on this. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| We're on Telegram and Education First Alliance. | ||
| You can go to the evil, very evil Facebook, which won't be on there long, Education First Alliance, and our website, edfirstnc.org, edfirstnc.org. | ||
| Hit us up. | ||
| Get involved. | ||
| Get on our newsletter. | ||
| We need you out there. | ||
| We need you helping us get the very best constitutional conservatives elected here in North Carolina. | ||
| It's gotta happen. | ||
| Thank you very much, Sloane Rathman. | ||
| Really appreciate you. | ||
| Change your schedule. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| I want you to have it with Boris. | ||
| Boris, she outlined one of the problems. | ||
| Let me bring up an unpleasant topic. | ||
| Walker. | ||
| You've got Bud and Walker. | ||
| Bud is supported by President Trump. | ||
| Walker is a good man. | ||
| But McCrory, who's obviously not just a rhino. | ||
| This is an old school liberal Republican. | ||
| And you see when rubber hits the road then. | ||
| We've got about a minute before we've got to go to break, Boris. | ||
| Give me your assessment right now of North Carolina, sir. | ||
| You heard it right there. | ||
| Ted Budd is the right candidate. | ||
| He adores our President Trump. | ||
| MAGA's got to coalesce. | ||
| And Walker's got a future in the party. | ||
| He's got a future in the movement. | ||
| He's a good man, but he's got to do what's right for the movement, take the leadership of President Trump, and bow out of the race and support Ted Budd. | ||
| That's the right thing to do there. | ||
| There's no two ways about it. | ||
| McRory's a danger. | ||
| He's a rhino. | ||
| He's not with President Trump and the MAGA movement. | ||
| And by splitting the MAGA vote, That's how you end up with people like McCrory. | ||
| That's the age-old adage. | ||
| I mean, it's game theory and it's absolutely base. | ||
| So, Walker's got to do the right thing and clear the path, pave the path, for Ted Budd to go and defeat McCrory and go ahead and win that seat. | ||
| Because here's what we can't have. | ||
| We can't have another Burr in that seat from North Carolina. | ||
| That would be a disaster, not just for the political movement, it would be a disaster for the country. | ||
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Boris, here's what's bad. | |
| We've got to go to break right now, but I think McCrory would actually be worse than Burr. | ||
| As bad as Burr is, I think this guy is actually more liberal. | ||
| This CRT issue is a cut-and-dry issue. | ||
| You're either with us or against us. | ||
| There's no middle ground here. | ||
| Nonsense. | ||
| Okay, short commercial break. | ||
| Boris Epstein, we got a lot to go through. | ||
| We're actually going to go visit Alabama. | ||
| Talk about that race down there. | ||
| Boris has got a lot of other breaking news. | ||
| He's been gone at meetings for the week, I guess, up to date. | ||
| And in Arizona, another firestorm out there. | ||
| And in Tucson, what they're going to do now is all MAGA has to get vaccinated to be a poll worker or poll watcher. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
| War Room Battleground with Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Okay, welcome back to War and Battleground. | ||
| In the first half of the show, I just want to go back over, there's this massive redistricting fight. | ||
| In Florida. | ||
| That couldn't be more important. | ||
| And we know it's going to happen next week. | ||
| We're going to get the numbers out. | ||
| We need to call Governor DeSantis' office, and particularly the Speaker of the House and the Senate. | ||
| Things have got to be sorted down there. | ||
| You've got to have Governor DeSantis back. | ||
| He's done a great job. | ||
| That was Anthony Sabatini. | ||
| And in North Carolina. | ||
| North Carolina, you've got all this nonsense about CRT. | ||
| It finds out that the Republican RINO appointees Of then-Governor McCrory. | ||
| He's running in the Senate. | ||
| You've got another situation there, Boris, that you've got two strong MAGA candidates. | ||
| You've got Bud, who's endorsed by President Trump. | ||
| You've got Mark Walker. | ||
| And something's got to give there. | ||
| We can't lose this seat. | ||
| And McCrory, my concern is he's worse than Burr. | ||
| And Burr's pretty dang bad. | ||
| I want to go to Alabama real quickly. | ||
| We've got another situation down there. | ||
| You've got a PAC. | ||
| That's a Never Trump PAC, kind of backed by the Romney guys, everything like that, and you've got it in, you've got, and you've got, they're back in this helicopter pilot, and right now you've got Mo Brooks, Mike Durant, you've got Mo Brooks, Katie Britt, but you've got this PAC that's there, and nobody really knows, he's pretending to be a MAGA, he's pretending to be a Trump supporter, and in essence, what you've got is a Never Trump, almost Lincoln Project type guy. | ||
| Give us your assessment. | ||
| Oh, completely. | ||
| A thousand percent. | ||
| Mike Durant is somebody who's come out over and over again and said, we need more John McCains and less President Trumps. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And look, here's the deal, and I've said this before, you've said it before. | ||
| Senator McCain was a hero, hero for his service in Vietnam. | ||
| Everything after that, total disaster. | ||
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| Politically, total disaster. | ||
| So Mike Durant's drawing a line in the sand. | ||
| He's saying, I'm not MAGA. | ||
| I'm not with the MAGA movement. | ||
| And he wants to be elected in Alabama? | ||
| Here's the issue there, and it's been pretty public. | ||
| The president was public about it this week. | ||
| Mo Brooks went out about eight, nine months ago now and said on stage, for some unknown reason, said that, oh, we've got to move on past 2020. | ||
| And the base said, wrong. | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| We're not going to put up with that. | ||
| That's not where we are. | ||
| The MAGA movement, which is the Republican Party, is going to do everything it can to get to the bottom, to the bottom of the 2020 election. | ||
| And that's where we are. | ||
| We're not going to take a step off that. | ||
| So, with that, in Alabama, Mo Brooks has got to run very strong here, very strong over the time left in the primary. | ||
| The primary is coming up. | ||
| And then you've got Katie Britt, who's also brought some heat, but she's got some real close contacts with McConnell. | ||
| But she's not going out there and criticizing President Trump. | ||
| And then you've got this guy Durant coming in, backed by the Romneys and the Lincoln Project folks, who's not with us whatsoever. | ||
| So it is a messy situation. | ||
| It's a messy situation. | ||
| And Alabama is a runoff state. | ||
| So let's see what happens. | ||
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But, you know, you got Mo Brooks, and I love me some Mo Brooks. | |
| Been a big fan of Mo Brooks for a long time. | ||
| He should have been back in that one in 18. | ||
| I love me some Mo Brooks, but let's say the campaign has not blown me away. | ||
| I'll just be blunt. | ||
| And I love Mo Brooks. | ||
| There was a massive screw-up at that huge rally with, what, 40, 50, 60,000 people out there. | ||
| Forty, fifty, sixty thousand people out there. | ||
| Sixty thousand people bored. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| And I tell you, you've got to get it right. | ||
| Katie Britt is very impressive, but there's a lot of, you know, she's very close to Shelby, which is an issue. | ||
| They don't know if she's McConaughey. | ||
| I keep hearing people say she's... Shelby said he's going to put millions of dollars into this. | ||
| So, hey, I'm going to cosplay this figure and say, Mo Brooks got problems. | ||
| Okay? | ||
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He's got problems. | |
| And Katie Britt, look, She's pretty impressive. | ||
| She's got to convince people, I'm MAGA, that I'm going to be there. | ||
| She's not going to turn out to be a female Ben Sasse. | ||
| If she can convince people that she's true MAGA and going to be with us and support with the MAGA movement, America First, Katie Britt's going to give a run. | ||
| But here's what we've got to get, I think, the good folks in Alabama, because that's one of the greatest of Trump states, to have a guy down there that's got one of these phony PACs and some guy that's a Stanley McChrystal guy. | ||
| McChrystal hates President Trump. | ||
| I mean, hates him. | ||
| Hates President Trump. | ||
| You can't have these PACs coming down there and saying, oh, this guy's a moderate and trying to pretend he's a little bit MAGA and try to slip in there. | ||
| It's just not. | ||
| He's getting his money from the Romney types, the Never Trump types, the McChrystal types. | ||
| These people hate President Trump and they're trying to have it both ways. | ||
| So they got to be one thing or the other. | ||
| I don't mind if he comes out and says, hey, look, I am taking money from all these Never Trump guys. | ||
| I'm not a Trump guy. | ||
| I'm not an American first guy. | ||
| I'm going to be a neoliberal. | ||
| Don't lie to us. | ||
| But people in Alabama, I think, got to start also doing the research. | ||
| This is a tough, this, okay, this seat has to be won by MAGA. | ||
| Let's leave it at that. | ||
| We're going to be going back over and spending a lot more time on the, on, he, by the way, he's a, go ahead, yeah, go ahead. | ||
| It's not just about, it's not just about, you know, a personal disdain this guy Duran has, obviously, for President Trump, which is disqualifying, disqualifying. | ||
| It's also his disdain for MAGA, and this guy wants to go and be in the Senate. | ||
| Well, guess what that means? | ||
| That means that he's going to have a major voice in foreign policy, and he'll be another one of these types that wants to go and fight in Ukraine and everywhere else and put American men and women on the ground, boots on the ground, and endanger our country and get us pulled into World War III. | ||
| We're another one of these globalists. | ||
| We can't have that. | ||
| And we definitely can't have that out of the state of Alabama, just like we can't have it out of North Carolina. | ||
| So we've got to have a solution in Alabama. | ||
| And frankly, you know, last time, right, when Doug Jones got destroyed by Tommy Tuberville, first of all, Tuberville had to completely annihilate Jeff Sessions, which he did, and now Tuberville's a great senator. | ||
| He's out there, he's doing the right thing, he's with us, right? | ||
| You know, just like The Tennessee Senator is there with us, right? | ||
| We've got two strong Senators in Tennessee now. | ||
| So we need to have the same exact thing happen in Alabama. | ||
| We can't have any weakness. | ||
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Alabama's got to get two MAGA heavyweights into the Senate. | |
| It's one of the central It's MAGA State. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| This is nonsense. | ||
| They have a guy down there that wants to be another John McCain. | ||
| You can't get more Never Trump than that. | ||
| So just folks in Alabama, we're going to spend a lot more time on that race than the race in Carolina. | ||
| Let me go out to Arizona. | ||
| I'm going to ask you about Judge Jackson, because this thing's blowing up, and I know you've got your finger on the pulse. | ||
| The confirmation hearing is supposed to start on Monday, and there's a lot of unfinished business. | ||
| Boris, I don't want to say this because I don't want to give you too much credit. | ||
| Ever since you came back from Arizona, the place has turned into a mess. | ||
| I left Dan Schultz in charge and the thing's a mess. | ||
| Let's bring in Dan Schultz. | ||
| Dan, you're a straight shooter. | ||
| You're a West Point grad. | ||
| Let's just level with people. | ||
| President Trump comes out and endorses the precinct strategy. | ||
| He says, yes, I want my people in at the precinct level. | ||
| I want to take over the Republican Party with MAGA people, with hard-working deplorables. | ||
| Four days after he does that, and Mike Lindell comes on top and says, I love this program. | ||
| I love Steve Stern. | ||
| I love Dan Schultz. | ||
| I'm all in. | ||
| They pass emergency legislation in Arizona, and Ducey signs it. | ||
| And ever since then, we've been tapped along. | ||
| It's going to be changed tomorrow. | ||
| There's going to be a change of bill. | ||
| We're now, I've closed the business on Friday, on the last time I looked, the 18th of March, I think there's half of a third. | ||
| Has anything gotten passed, Dan, or where do we actually stand on getting this legislation reversed? | ||
| The latest I have read, and by the way, to fix all of this, go to precinctstrategy.com, precinctstrategy.com, become a PC. | ||
| But, getting back to the legislation, as far as I know, the Democrats are not going to go along with any kind of | ||
| Fix it would take a to get it done and enacted so that it would take immediate effect has to be done in an emergency basis again and you have to have a two-thirds vote in both chambers to do that and then you got to get the governor to sign it and There was an article published this morning and the Arizona Capital Times the headline basically said it doesn't look like it's the Democrats are going to play ball on this and as a result | ||
| This section four is going to become the law of the land, so to speak. | ||
| But there's some problems with that, with respect to the government enforcing it. | ||
| There's no enforcement mechanism. | ||
| There's no way they can enforce it. | ||
| And I'm going to be advocating that if this doesn't get fixed, and they won't let us use the primary that's going to go forward, it's going to go forward, but they're not going to let the parties We'll come back and get a solution next week, but the reason I want to have you on today, and thank you for taking time away on a Friday, is very simple. | ||
| I'm going to be advocating. | ||
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Okay, well, hold on, we'll come back and get a solution next week, but the reason I want to have you on today, and thank you for taking time away on a Friday, is very simple. | |
| The fear of this, we've talked about rhinos this whole show, and now it's time for you to do something about rhinos. | ||
| We've talked about all the problems, and they're legion. | ||
| I don't care if it's North Carolina, if it's Florida, and these are not small. | ||
| In Alabama, those are great states. | ||
| The state of Carolina, MAGA. | ||
| The state of Florida, MAGA. | ||
| Alabama, super MAGA. | ||
| And in every state, we're talking about massive problems, not with Democrats. | ||
| The biggest problems we've got is with establishment rhinos. | ||
| There's a solution. | ||
| And Donald J. Trump endorsed the work of Dan Schultz and Steve Stern on the precinct strategy, and four days after he did it, Doocy and the establishment blew it up in Arizona. | ||
| So this is my call to action. | ||
| Go to Precinct Strategy. | ||
| Throughout the nation, Throughout the nation now, you can't get any better tip that they don't want you involved, okay? | ||
| They don't want your involvement. | ||
| They want your money, they want you to give donations, they want you to show up to vote, they want you to keep your mouth shut and move on. | ||
| That cannot happen and there's a solution. | ||
| I don't want, remember, in the war room, there's no whining and no tears, okay? | ||
| So I don't want to see on November 8th, we're sitting there going, oh, we did all this work and got all these back. | ||
| No. | ||
| The way to stop it is to do it in all the other states except for Arizona since they blew us up. | ||
| Go to PrecinctStrategy.com. | ||
| Just go there. | ||
| It costs you no money. | ||
| All you have to do is go. | ||
| Dan Schultz has got it set up, right? | ||
| Your software partner has put up a great platform. | ||
| You've got all this information. | ||
| Dan, I want everybody that listens to The War Room, everybody that goes to The War Room all weekend, this is your weekend, to sign up and become a precinct strategy committeeman or precinct committeeman. | ||
| Dan, when they go to the site, tell us what they've got to do. | ||
| What they need to do is this is what it looks like when you get there This is the precinct committeeman strategy in a nutshell and what you the first step you've got to do is Follow the steps on the site to find your local or county Republican committee do an internet search go to my site. | ||
| I've got state information good sites I've put on my on my like Pasco County Pasco County, Florida for example has a great how to become a PC and In their county. | ||
| So if it's a good site, I'll put it on my site. | ||
| Learn the terminology, find your county committee, then get in contact with them. | ||
| Any way you can. | ||
| Some of them will welcome you, some of them will not welcome you. | ||
| And get there, and then show up and say, I want to become a voting member of this party committee. | ||
| That's what I want to do. | ||
| And so that's the first step. | ||
| Then, once you get to my site, click on the button that says connect with other conservatives in your state. | ||
| That takes you to the Precinct Strategy Communications and Collaboration Platform, where we will let in America Firsters to do just that. | ||
| Share documents, chat about issues, get to know one another locally, statewide, nationally. | ||
| It's all there. | ||
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Amen. | |
| Amen. | ||
| So that's what we need to do. | ||
| We've got to start communicating And uniting politically. | ||
| and this tool will let you do it. | ||
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Dan, we gotta bounce. | |
| We're getting you back all next week, Stern. | ||
| We're gonna have success stories all over the country. | ||
| People are jacked up. | ||
| I wanna thank you, and hey, dude, you think the left fears you, the right-nos fear you so much more, so thank you, come on, Dan. | ||
| I want everybody to go to Precinct Strategy right now. | ||
| Visit Dan over the weekend. | ||
| Thanks, brother. Thanks, Dan. | ||
| Out in Tucson, remember, for the poll workers, they're passing an ordinance, I think. | ||
| You have to be vaccinated. | ||
| Look, our opposition is smart and cunning, right? | ||
| Like a snake. | ||
| They understand you got to be vaccinated now to be a poll worker. | ||
| So, hey, they're coming in every direction. | ||
| Boris, the reason I want to have Dan on before you, you've been gone from from the war room for about a week or so in meetings. | ||
| But the essence of the meetings are about the Trump movement versus the Republican establishment. | ||
| Let's just be blunt on every different aspect. | ||
| You're looking at it. | ||
| What can you tell the posse? | ||
| It's kind of the outcome. | ||
| What should people not just be looking for, but is there a rejuvenation? | ||
| That the movement now needs to put lead on targets, whether it's state legislation to decertify or to get some of these rhinos out of these races and start winning House seats and start winning primaries for House members and blow some of these rhinos out of these Senate races. | ||
| No doubt about it, Stephen. | ||
| I love that not being on for two days out of five equals to me being gone from the War Room. | ||
| I'm so honored to be a part of the posse, so honored to be reporting to, of course, you, Steve, but most importantly, the whole audience from everywhere all across the country. | ||
| And in Florida this week, MAGA is in full Alert, MAGA is on full display, and MAGA is all heat. | ||
| There is no taking a step back. | ||
| There is no allowing for any rhinos to somehow pop back up, and for the swamp to reach back up and grab MAGA. | ||
| It is all about MAGA winning in 2022, 100 seats, 100 years, and then the thing that we all are looking forward to, that we're all driving towards, President Trump, Winning in 2024 and walking back into that White House the latest, the latest of January 2020-25. | ||
| In the meantime, we're going to fight like hell all across the country, and I heard that there's major positive developments coming in Georgia in the next week, in Pennsylvania, that fight's continuing, in Arizona. | ||
| Now, hear me loud and clear. | ||
| In Arizona, to every member of the legislature there, if you do not vote, and if you don't do everything possible to put Mark Fincham's resolution to decertify on the floor. | ||
| I do not see how you have a political career in the Republican Party MAGA movement moving forward. | ||
| We have got to, the moment is now. | ||
| The vehicle is there. | ||
| We've got to decertify Arizona. | ||
| Now, the same in Wisconsin. | ||
| We've got everything we need from Judge Gabelman's report on how it was stolen and on how to deal with that steal. | ||
| President Trump putting out a fire statement yesterday. | ||
| Equating it to a very simple thing. | ||
| A theft of a jewelry store. | ||
| You steal diamonds? | ||
| There's a cure. | ||
| You steal an election? | ||
| There's a cure. | ||
| And that is exactly what Judge Gabelman laid out. | ||
| President Trump, in the only way he knows how, distilling the issue in what Judge Gabelman laid out in his report. | ||
| So all across the country, MAGA continues to be on the rise. | ||
| And Steve, personally, what I see in Arizona and Florida and even up north, The amount of people who come up to me, people who say, keep doing what you're doing, love the War Room, love Steve Bannon. | ||
| I gotta tell you, you're getting way too popular out there, Bannon, okay? | ||
| It's a little scary, a little scary. | ||
| But who send their regards to Steve, of course to President Trump, and who express their heart felt love for the MAGA movement is absolutely overwhelming and I'm so thankful to be a humble part of this movement, humble part of this policy and I'm so excited for what we have to come. | ||
| But we won't get there unless we fight, unless we fight with 17-year redistricting, unless we fight with the patriots that are in Missouri and do not take one step back. Okay, look we got a fight. | ||
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That's what this extra hour we've added every day to get into the nitty-gritty of what's happened in the run-up to the 22nd. | |
| I've got to talk about two national issues for a second because we'd like to focus even nationally at the state level where people are going to take action. | ||
| One is the Hunter This is before the illegal voting even got counted that week in October. | ||
| today no president trump had something to say about it it's so outrageous it is literally so outrageous the collusion of big media social media uh... that the intelligence community for president trump's uh... winning of the twenty twenty election he won but distorted that this before the the illegal of voting even got counted that week in october uh... give me a minute to in that for a share about judge jackson sir president trump said it perfectly good | ||
| The New York Times admitted that it participated and led in the effort to rig this election. | ||
| And I put it on all my social channels. | ||
| Because that's a vital statement. | ||
| It's a one-sentence statement from the President. | ||
| That the New York Times participated and led in the effort to rig the election. | ||
| Because that's what it was. | ||
| We know this election was rigged. | ||
| It was rigged by the illegal voting, and it was rigged by the censorship. | ||
| And here's the deal, okay? | ||
| Everybody's showing the pictures of Hunter in his diaper and the crack pipe and the hookers and all that, okay? | ||
| Sure, he's a totally screwed up, troubled idiot. | ||
| No doubt about it. | ||
| But the key information in there isn't that. | ||
| It's how the Biden sold our country down the river to China, Ukraine, and others. | ||
| It is the corruption. | ||
| And I believe that's why the New York Times had to go and do this cleanup on aisle 9, because the investigation is heating up. | ||
| Now, do I believe that the investigation is actually going to produce results like it should? | ||
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No. | |
| You know why? | ||
| Because Biden's a Democrat. | ||
| If this were a Republican already, you'd have a 35-year sentence, the whole thing. | ||
| But Biden's a Democrat, so they're gonna try to slow walk this thing and come out with some report. | ||
| It's like, oh, boo-hoo, you know, Hunter's got problems mentally, so maybe it's not that big of a deal. | ||
| That is a lie. | ||
| The reason it's the laptop from hell isn't the embarrassing stuff. | ||
| It is the illegality. | ||
| It is the bribery. | ||
| It is the stone cold proof that Joe Biden used his office as Vice President and Senator before to sell access through his messed up kid, Hunter Biden. | ||
| And by the way, through his brothers as well. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This is a criminal family. | ||
| They've committed criminal acts. | ||
| And now, even the New York Times can't cover up for them anymore. | ||
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So they got a grand jury here, they got a grand jury on his taxes, and when we win this massive victory in 8, the Congressional investigation will be brutal. | |
| 30 seconds. | ||
| Judge Jackson, massive controversy here about this U.S. | ||
| Sentencing Commission, her work on the pedophiles, child pornography. | ||
| Do you believe there's a case to be made just to delay the hearings from starting Monday, delay them for later in the week until more information out? | ||
| Boris Epstein. | ||
| Absolutely, and it's because the Democrats aren't allowing the information to come out. | ||
| Big Durbin, the chair of the Judiciary Committee, is not allowing for the records from the Sentencing Commission of Judge Jackson's time in the Sentencing Commission to be out. | ||
| This is the only thing the Democrats ever screw about. | ||
| Oh, we want all the info. | ||
| We all deserve the information on who Judge Jackson is and her records. | ||
| So let's have that. | ||
| Give me 10 seconds on your social media. | ||
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How'd it get to you? | |
| Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. | ||
| Jason Miller will be my co-host for both hours. |
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