Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is confident that victory for former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5 is “within our grasp.”
“We’ve got this fight teed up exactly where we want it,” Bannon explained on Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Bannon cited Democrats’ low early voting turnout and the lack of enthusiasm among black and Hispanic men to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris for his confidence that Trump will emerge victorious on Tuesday.
“If you had told us four years ago, when they stole the last one, that in the final weekend, [Democrats] had not built firewalls on this early voting and the South-North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada – are looking solid, that the fight could come up in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, we would take that. We’d say this is fantastic,” Bannon said.
“[Democrats] didn’t build firewalls in the early votes. They don’t have enthusiasm. African American men and Hispanic men are not coming out and voting. This is ours. This is within our grasp,” Bannon added.
Bannon said the only component left to ensure a Trump victory is the “mass mobilization” of voters heading to the polls on Election Day.
“So it’s very simple – we just have to deliver. The human agency of our people, if we deliver on Tuesday with mass mobilization, Trump is the president, we take the Senate, we hold the House, and we control the government,” Bannon said.
Having just been released from federal prison after serving a four-month sentence for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee, Bannon said black and Hispanic men will not vote for Harris as she is the “queen of mass incarcerations.”
“[Black and Hispanic inmates] despise her because she was a prosecutor that believes in mass incarcerations…Some of them may not vote for Trump, but they certainly ain’t voting for Kamala Harris,” Bannon explained.
Another issue Bannon experienced firsthand during his time in federal prison that may have affected the election was the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to implement the First Step Act for eligible inmates.
The First Step Act, signed into law by Trump, is a criminal justice reform law allowing federal inmates to earn “good time credits” while incarcerated to reduce their sentence through behavior and participation in prison programs.
While Bannon accrued 10 days of good time credit toward an early release during his time in prison, the former Trump advisor was not released earlier than his original scheduled release date of October 29.
Bannon said the Biden-Harris administration is not implementing the First Step Act to “have a political victory” by not acknowledging the landmark criminal justice reform created by Trump.
“Here’s what gets me. You have all of these kids that have been drug dealers, and I’m not trying to defend what they did, but they’re all incarcerated for 5, 10, 15, 20 years, and then you have the cartels that we don’t touch, You have these foreign national criminals that [Harris] has not mass deported,” Bannon explained.
“So the Harris-Biden regime will not either arrest or mass deport foreign national criminals in the United States, but they go out of their way to arrest American citizens and then don’t give them the rights they have under the First Step Act from President Trump. The reason is because they don’t want President Trump to have a political victory. It’s very cynical,” Bannon added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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