The Great America Show - WAR ROOM’S STEVE BANNON PREDICTS GOP WINS FOR LAXALT, MASTERS AND WALKER TO GIVE GOP CONTROL OF HOUSE AND SENATE

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show, and thanks for being with us.

00:00:05.100 Today, we're ticking up the election that just keeps on going, and it seems like the Republican

00:00:10.860 Party just doesn't want to ask any unpleasant questions, like why in the world are they still

00:00:16.580 counting ballots in Nevada and Arizona? This is just simply crazy, and it drives me crazy that

00:00:23.900 the Republican Party is filled with so many rhinos, and somebody keeps electing these Democrats in GOP 1.00

00:00:31.160 costumes, and it's got to stop. Whose side do Republicans think these rhinos are on? If they 1.00

00:00:38.060 were America first, if they were maggot of the bone, they wouldn't be rhinos, would they? As you know,

00:00:44.120 I get upset about these rhinos, and with good reason, I think. And speaking of rhinos, Mitch McConnell is

00:00:50.420 on my mind a lot these days. Take a listen to some of these numbers. In Arizona, Blake Masters was

00:00:58.380 outspent by Dem Senator Mark Kelly, $73 million to Masters, $9 million. In Georgia, Hersher Walker

00:01:07.760 was outspent by Dem Raphael Warnock, $76 million to $32 million for Walker. In Nevada, Adam Laxalt

00:01:18.320 outspent. Democrat Catherine Cortez spent $47 million, Laxalt only $12 million. And in New

00:01:27.140 Hampshire, Don Boldoc was outspent $36 million to $2 million by the winner, Democrat Maggie Hassan.

00:01:36.540 Now, each one of those races, we might not have won, but with money, we sure would have picked up at

00:01:43.180 least a few. What is Mitch McConnell doing, and why is the Republican Party putting up with him

00:01:49.720 in leadership? I'm pleased to say that our guest today is a MAGA warrior. The War Room's Steve

00:01:56.260 Bannon with us will be taking up what the hell is going on in this party of ours. Soon, it will be

00:02:02.180 their party if we don't scrub down the grand old party and excuse these buttercups and daffodils from

00:02:08.780 further participation in the Republican Party. At least in elections. Maybe let these rhinos go to 1.00

00:02:15.780 dinners and donate at fundraisers, but I don't think we should hear from them otherwise. Now,

00:02:22.100 we've got these rhinos, the establishment types as well, going after President Trump. All he did,

00:02:28.860 of course, was about 30 rallies. He endorsed and campaigned for about 200 candidates,

00:02:34.480 and at last count had lost 14 races. That's a 93% one loss percentage, folks. That's an amazing

00:02:43.400 success rate, and we've got do-nothing, know-nothing rhinos suddenly attacking President Trump. 0.68

00:02:50.220 Are you kidding me? Paul Ryan? This guy and his milquetoast buddy, Mitt Romney, are nothing more

00:02:56.720 than weak-kneed rhinos insanely jealous of President Trump because he did what they couldn't. He won. 0.75

00:03:04.480 And he delivered on his campaign promises. They're haters. Trump's a builder. He's worked for

00:03:10.680 families, working people, and yes, faith in the public square. And the rhinos and Marxist 0.81

00:03:15.800 dims are the same now. They want big government, ever bigger government. They're tied up with a deep 0.98

00:03:22.320 state, and they've let corruption rage in the federal government for decades. We have two states

00:03:28.360 still counting, and for the life of me, I don't understand why even the rhino Ronna McDaniel

00:03:33.480 has a job as head of the RNC, first of all, and why she doesn't have hundreds of attorneys all over 1.00

00:03:40.540 Maricopa County, Arizona, where the dims are obviously delaying the vote count, trying to cheat

00:03:46.480 Carrie Lake out of the governorship. Much the same is happening in Nevada. Right now, the counting is

00:03:53.080 stopped while Adam Laxalt, GOP Senate candidate, is leading. But the delay? For what reason?

00:03:59.480 The Marxist dims aren't saying, but there could only be one logical answer. They need more time to

00:04:05.660 figure out how to come up with the votes necessary to overcome Carrie Lake and Adam Laxalt. The question

00:04:12.460 is, will it work? Where are the rhino NRC lawyers, the GOP lawyers in Arizona and Nevada? It stinks to 0.98

00:04:21.460 high heaven that more hasn't been done. Our guest today has been out in Arizona campaigning for MAGA

00:04:27.340 candidates. He's the former chief strategist for President Trump, now the host of Steve Bannon's

00:04:32.400 War Room. Great American, Steve Bannon. Great to have you back with us, Steve. What is going on with

00:04:38.200 these elections? It looks like we'll win back the House, a slim possibility in the Senate. What

00:04:43.540 happened? Well, look, I think that, you know, we had the issues. We had, I think, some great candidates.

00:04:50.420 We had some candidates maybe not that great, maybe came off message. I think those are the

00:04:54.980 non-MAGA candidates. And I actually think, Lou, for what we had to accomplish and what

00:05:00.480 we tried to do, it was a daggone good night. I think we've got to sit around and just work

00:05:05.500 hard over the next 48 hours and see if we've got how many seats in the House we actually

00:05:12.120 closed. We fired Nancy Pelosi. We've just got to know if that's going to be 220, 225, 230, right?

00:05:18.800 And what that majority is and who's actually going to be speaker, because I think there's

00:05:21.840 a lot of things in play. On the Senate side, I have Adam Laxalt, I think, is going to win.

00:05:27.500 I believe that Blake Masters, when all these votes are counted in Arizona, and that's a

00:05:31.800 moving situation I'm pretty familiar with, I think Blake Masters will win. And if he doesn't,

00:05:36.640 we'll win with Herschel Walker in 30 days from now. So that'll be, we'll take the House and

00:05:41.920 the Senate. Schumer and Pelosi are both fired, and we have to have leaders that are going to

00:05:46.340 make sure that they implement the covenant we made with the American people. As far as governors,

00:05:51.320 I mean, in Florida, massive day, Georgia, massive day. And really, the most important to me is

00:05:55.780 Arizona. In fact, I think that entire ticket's going to win if you can understand the math. So no,

00:06:02.560 I think Kelly Chewbacca may beat Murkowski in Alaska. So I think, was it the great night that we

00:06:09.500 thought we could possibly have? No, it was not. Was it a good night? I thought it was a very good night,

00:06:14.100 and it gives us enough to work with to shut down. The Biden regime ended last night. The

00:06:18.820 mainstream media doesn't want to report that. They want to get into all this nonsense between

00:06:22.060 Trump and DeSantis, which is just noise, not signal. The signal is next 48 to 72 hours have

00:06:28.500 to close all of these House seats. They're going to be tough. You're going to go to court on some,

00:06:32.620 recounts for others. We got a lot of low-hanging fruit there that we must close on, not like 2020.

00:06:38.040 And the same in the Senate. I think this Blake Masters name could go to court. I think

00:06:43.700 Lacksaw will win. I think Blake Masters will win eventually, and if not, Herschel Walker will win

00:06:48.160 in 30 days, or maybe Herschel Walker is the 52nd Senator.

00:06:53.040 I would love for your analysis to be the pathway to the future. I am sitting here thinking,

00:07:03.520 and I started thinking seriously about it some time ago, but the Republican Party continues to march

00:07:12.780 ahead with liberal leaders, whether it's Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy, and no one seems to

00:07:21.000 want to have that conversation in either conference. The Republicans want to follow the most liberal

00:07:27.400 Republicans, and the Democrats are following the most aggressive Marxist leftists in the country.

00:07:37.580 And they're succeeding, and the Republicans are not now at least succeeding. They have reached a draw,

00:07:45.960 I will call. I think this is a draw, what happened on the 8th and over the next few days. It looks like

00:07:54.100 a draw to me. It feels like a draw because of the expectations. So what are we going to do about

00:07:59.940 leadership? Because these people just aren't, aren't, they're not killers. They're not great.

00:08:05.620 The reality is we can't, I don't know how we're going to change leadership until President Trump

00:08:09.540 changes his attitude. Look, both these leaders are here because of President Trump. Let's be blunt.

00:08:14.140 He went out and endorsed Crapo. He endorsed Moran. He endorsed Boozman. He endorsed

00:08:18.600 Burasmo. He endorsed five or six guys out of the box, which are all primaried and all infected.

00:08:24.440 Jake Bechtel down in Arkansas, he had a fabulous candidate. He endorsed five of McConnell's closest

00:08:31.220 friends. Kind of hard to redo things after that. I mean, you've got Josh Hawley. You've got Rick Scott,

00:08:36.560 but they're not dealt much of a hand. President Trump, the advisors around him, who mainly made money

00:08:42.000 off of these endorsements, talked him into endorsing five or six individuals that never should have been

00:08:47.440 endorsed. That gave McConnell the votes he needed, the leverage he needed. And that's why you get

00:08:51.720 Mitch McConnell. You can't sit there and send out mean tweets or mean true social posts about Mitch

00:08:57.220 McConnell. And no, Mitch McConnell can't get impeached because he's not going to, Mitch McConnell's

00:09:01.400 always going to increase the debt ceiling. We've done that for two years. The Senate problem is

00:09:05.240 because President Trump allowed Mitch McConnell to become a power player. It never took him on. I mean,

00:09:10.500 I hate to be blunt about it, but that's the situation. Same with Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy's

00:09:15.120 political advisor is President Trump's political advisor, one of his senior guys.

00:09:19.400 So Kevin McCarthy's there because President Trump has tolerated it. So until we have that seat

00:09:24.780 change, until you have that seat change, you're going to have McCarthy and you're going to have

00:09:28.720 Mitch McConnell. Now, in the House, because of the not, you know, instead of 40 seats, they may get,

00:09:37.000 you know, 15 to 25 and not the 40 to 50 that were out there. Both Embers and McCarthy are,

00:09:42.940 as we speak this afternoon, there's all kinds of moves being made on McCarthy. You know, I argued

00:09:48.580 adamantly President Trump should come in and be speaker for a hundred days, clean this mess up,

00:09:53.580 and then step down and announce he's running the program. But he didn't take that advice on that

00:09:58.680 idea. And you've got McCarthy. Now, McCarthy may be overthrown by people in the Republican

00:10:04.580 conference who thought he had all the tools, he had everything going for him, including all the

00:10:09.540 negatives of Biden, and he didn't get it done. And so he may be overthrown, but that's not going

00:10:13.500 to be, President Trump may nod to that. But President Trump, these are the two leaders

00:10:18.120 that President Trump has accepted and quite frankly, empowered and enforced.

00:10:22.700 And in this case, the old saying, personnel is policy. In this case, personality may,

00:10:30.100 personnel may be, in point of fact, fate, because he's also responsible for the presence

00:10:36.700 of Ronald McDaniel, who has just been a complete and utter disaster. And I, because I don't take

00:10:43.060 draws when we should have had, I mean, we're talking about a country that has been telling

00:10:48.700 pollsters that Joe Biden is unfit for office, should be, is responsible for inflation and the

00:10:57.300 economic turmoil that we face. And three-fourths of the country say the country is headed in the

00:11:03.680 wrong direction and what we get's a draw. I mean, it's time for the Republican voters to say,

00:11:10.820 the hell with this establishment nonsense. We've got to have a real agenda with real leadership,

00:11:18.260 strength and principle, and move ahead.

00:11:22.160 I think the Republican voters do want that. I think one of the realities we have to unfortunately

00:11:26.920 face is that you have Ken Griffin. I'm just going to throw out a couple of random names,

00:11:30.680 Paul Singer, Ken Griffin, and Schwartzman, Steve Schwartzman, who have put in $150 million

00:11:38.320 into these races and to personally beat back challengers and to make sure it's prohibitively

00:11:44.980 expensive for challengers, particularly in these Senate premiers, which are statewide, right? It's

00:11:49.960 made it quite difficult. We've had a lot more MAGA candidates at the House side than we've had

00:11:54.300 the Senate. Number one, it's just the exorbitant cost of running in these statewide. And the money,

00:12:01.940 the corporate interest, the Wall Street interest, that McConnell does such a great job of funneling,

00:12:07.220 he does do a great job of that. He's a power broker, has built a wall of resistance. That's

00:12:13.340 why President Trump's endorsements, I just want to repeat, in this cycle, and these were early on,

00:12:19.760 this was in the first 90 days, you know, in 2021. Crapo in Idaho, Burasmo in Wyoming, both of those

00:12:29.160 could have been taken out easily. Those are huge Trump states. Boozman in Arkansas, Moran in Kansas,

00:12:36.320 and there's a couple of others. Those guys could have all been replaced with big time MAGA,

00:12:42.040 you know, MAGA candidates. But you get that endorsement, and quite frankly, guys around President

00:12:46.460 Trump, were working on those, and I think that paid for it. It's very tough to change the Senate

00:12:51.300 when you've got those states, which in Idaho, Kansas, and Wyoming, and then, you know, kind of

00:12:59.620 in Arkansas, are cheap TV markets, that a grassroots candidate could really get some traction. So,

00:13:05.640 look, it happened two years ago. It's kind of water over the bridge. But if you're going to change

00:13:08.960 the Senate, you've got to change it, and that's why you've got to change it. I mean, Blake Masters is

00:13:13.020 even competitive out there, because that TV market, although expensive, it's not soul-crushing

00:13:19.480 expensive. And Carrie Lake showed that. Carrie Lake had $40 million dropped on her in negative 1.00

00:13:25.400 ads, $40 million against $3 million in the primary. She went by five and a half points. 0.99

00:13:30.520 She started last night down 16 points. And today, as we speak, she's dead even, with another 500,000 0.79

00:13:37.140 game day votes to drop, of which she's winning those game day votes, 70 to 30. So, she could have,

00:13:43.760 you know, God help us, let me knock on wood here. She could, you know, she could end up winning by four 1.00

00:13:48.620 or five points right here, maybe even drag Blake Masters across the goal line. But people have to be

00:13:53.660 committed to do this, and it's tough to do, particularly with President Trump, as much power and stroke as he

00:13:58.520 has with this base. And they still have tremendous admiration, love for him, and support. People get a

00:14:06.320 little, you know, they don't understand what's going on. They particularly don't understand as much

00:14:10.180 McConnell's situation. You know, McConnell right now, you know, they talk about divided government,

00:14:14.460 that we have one in winning the House and about to win the Senate. We have divided government.

00:14:19.020 We're going to have power of the purse, going to have investigations in the House. We'll have these

00:14:22.980 things in the Senate. But we have divided government. Lewis, you've preached for so long on our side,

00:14:28.960 that the leadership in the House and the Senate are not aligned with MAGA values, and particularly

00:14:33.560 not aligned with President Trump. Until we get that sorted, it's going to be very tough. And I'm telling you,

00:14:38.340 the leadership votes are going to take place next Tuesday, the 15th in Washington, D.C., both the House

00:14:43.760 leadership and Senate leadership votes. Now, the Senate leadership may wait until the Herschel War. If

00:14:49.280 Masters does not win over the next four or five days, which will probably take it,

00:14:52.580 I happen to believe right now it's a very tough path. I think Masters, given the number of votes

00:14:57.600 out there, game day, election day votes, and how they're breaking, that I do think Blake Masters

00:15:02.080 ends up the winner. But if he doesn't, I think they have to wait until December 10th, right after

00:15:06.840 Herschel Walker's victory in Georgia. But, you know, they're going to, before Christmas,

00:15:12.520 we're going to have leaders in the House on the side. And if those leaders are not aligned with

00:15:16.420 President Trump, then we're going to have, you know, we're going to be in opposition,

00:15:20.500 but we're going to have a much harder time. Yeah, I think you're right. And I also think that

00:15:25.920 there is no question that leadership in the Senate is going to make itself felt on all of those issues,

00:15:32.760 just as in choosing not to fund certain candidates, whether they be in New Hampshire,

00:15:38.260 whether they be in Arizona. You know, he worked, Mitch McConnell worked against the interest of

00:15:46.120 the Republican Party. And on that basis alone, he should be withdrawn as the, if it does turn out

00:15:53.460 to be the majority leader or the minority leader in the Senate, don't you think?

00:15:58.620 I, look, I agree. I've been in battle with Mitch McConnell for many, many years. But once again,

00:16:04.560 we have to have constancy, right? I've seen the deals have been cut. Look, Mitch McConnell's there

00:16:09.100 in this lame duck is going to be one of the most, the next six weeks, first off, 2023 is going to be

00:16:15.100 one of the most important and volatile years in American history, just given our financial

00:16:19.260 and economic situation. But, Lou, we're about to see an orgy of deal cutting the swamp in money

00:16:26.500 being authorized because these guys understand that, the Democrats understand they're going to be a long

00:16:32.500 time for the take control back of the house. Nancy Pelosi's gone. They're gone.

00:16:37.580 Mitch McConnell's already indicated that he'd be open with Shelby and these guys who are leaving

00:16:41.700 to cut some deal in the debt ceiling. You're going to see an orgy of spending here

00:16:45.880 in the next six weeks in this lame duck because some of these people realize they're never going

00:16:50.340 to be back. Or even the house has not taken one or two cycles to get power back. And so they're

00:16:56.400 going to want to cut every deal in the wind. It's going to be very ugly. It's going to be incredibly

00:17:00.120 harmful for the country. But that's the way this system works right now. So I think people have

00:17:05.760 to be on point to understand that our fight is starting like today. Today, I spent all day trying

00:17:13.100 to close on another 15 to 20 of these house seats that are right on knife's edge. A bunch of those

00:17:18.660 are coming down to, you know, under 2,000 votes. People are going to the court already. People

00:17:23.260 are getting recounts. You've also got these Senate seats. You've got to get a couple of

00:17:26.440 governorships. It's a fight. And then next week, we start right off the bat with these leadership

00:17:31.840 elections, which is going to set the tone. We have divided government on our side of the football. We

00:17:36.460 have to get that aligned. Part of that getting aligned is President Trump understanding that McCarthy

00:17:42.140 and McConnell are not on the same page with him. Let's leave the personalities aside.

00:17:46.080 I just am not on the same page with him from a policy perspective. And you know this.

00:17:51.320 I suppose everything from trade, bringing manufacturing jobs back, the control of these big multinational

00:17:57.580 corporations just go down the punch list. We're just not aligned. Our voters are aligned with

00:18:03.680 the MAGA America First President Trump agenda. The leadership of those political apparatuses are

00:18:10.740 not. I hope the President understands, and I'm sure that he does not want to deal with it right at this

00:18:20.440 moment. But I do hope he understands that he has, he is the President in waiting, and he has to make

00:18:30.280 changes. Because to consider with this sclerotic group of rhinos in positions of power that frustrate the MAGA 1.00

00:18:40.180 agenda, the America First agenda, he will pay a price for it at the polls in 2024. And there's no doubt of it.

00:18:50.380 I think what we're seeing right now is in some way in this election, what should have been, in my opinion,

00:18:57.580 at least a strong red wave, if not a tsunami, is sort of an even-steven split, because the Republican Party

00:19:08.900 is split. You have Mitch McConnell cutting deals, and you have Kevin McCarthy trying to figure out what a deal

00:19:19.500 looks like. It's ridiculous to tolerate this kind of leadership. And a conference, by the way,

00:19:25.660 that is so enamored with its, you know, its handful, more than a handful, of rhinos, that they don't want

00:19:33.160 to make waves. They want to play pity patter. And point of fact, it's destructive. And there has to be

00:19:41.480 leadership that comes up out of the conference, rather than is forced from above.

00:19:48.040 I could not agree with you more. And I think that day is, today is Wednesday when we're doing this

00:19:54.780 podcast. Brother, that vote takes place on six days. I mean, you know, I couldn't agree with you

00:20:01.520 more. And I think, I think the only, not correction, observation I would make, I don't think he has to

00:20:07.240 wait for the polls in 2024. Because I think 2023, remember, if we do it at the same time in history,

00:20:12.640 next June is when President Trump in 15 came down the escalator. So, so the kickoff is down there.

00:20:20.160 And it's going to happen a lot sooner than the polls. They're going to try to bleed him out.

00:20:24.160 Look, their purpose is very, they're very, they've thought this thing through pretty clearly. They want

00:20:29.780 the Trump voters. They don't want the Trump, they don't want Trump and they don't want the Trump

00:20:34.560 voters attitude. They just want your votes and they want your money. They've been pretty upfront about

00:20:39.540 this. It's not, this is not complicated. And they don't want President Trump anywhere near this.

00:20:43.240 They want him out. They want him down. They would not support us. And so that is the,

00:20:48.040 one of the principal dilemmas we have. And you see how the mainstream media, conservative media,

00:20:52.360 and the conservative media was burying President Trump last night, well before he's even gotten,

00:20:57.700 I mean, they were rooting against us. That's why I'm working so hard to get these house seats.

00:21:01.340 They're rooting against us getting more house seats. They're rooting against us to really get

00:21:05.160 the Senate. They would like to be able to blame all this on President Trump. It's not

00:21:08.980 President Trump's fault. And these things are out there winnable right now. Like in

00:21:12.360 Cary Lake, I have not slept now in about three days. And last night I was up all night working

00:21:18.240 with the team out there to make sure that these votes are coming in. And ever since last night,

00:21:23.700 the huge process of game day votes have come in. Although in Maricopa County, the officials,

00:21:28.540 I think, tried to steal it for Katie Howes to make it as difficult as possible to bid on election 1.00

00:21:33.300 day to make sure people were raved off. Still a massive turnout, which I was out there for a week.

00:21:38.160 There were a couple of weeks to help generate Trump voters on game day. And it's, you know,

00:21:43.320 it's come to fruition. But, you know, people are not working to close these deals, just like in

00:21:48.160 2020. These deals are absolutely closed. Right now, their number one obsession is to rid themselves

00:21:56.020 of President Trump, yet still keep his voters. So, you know, America is in a turbulent time because,

00:22:03.320 you know, America, like other countries, you go through these cycles of history,

00:22:07.240 it's just not going to be pleasant. It's not going to be sunlit uplands. We're a divided country for a

00:22:11.200 simple reason. You know, people here have two different concepts of the nation. One is very

00:22:17.240 much tied to the founding of the country as a constitutional republic. And what we've done is

00:22:22.020 the backbone of the Judeo-Christian civilization. And others are just radical, I think, almost cultural

00:22:28.800 Marxists and authoritarians. And they're not going to compromise on that. There's no middle ground

00:22:34.660 there. One side's going to win and one side's going to lose. And unfortunately, on our side of

00:22:39.640 football, we have lots of globalists and lots of non-American firsters that are on our side of

00:22:48.180 football because they like tax cuts and deregulation. And that's a lot of money associated

00:22:53.100 with that. That does not support the values of the MAGA movement. That's a dilemma we have.

00:22:59.740 And we're fighting on our side of football. It's going to continue to fight into 2023, which

00:23:04.020 we're going to have, I believe, just a continuing economic and financial crisis.

00:23:08.460 Now, there is no question that President Trump, if he runs in 2024, which I think he will,

00:23:16.040 has to have a team around him of warriors. You remember during 2015 and 16, he would talk about

00:23:24.440 the killers he's going to bring to the White House and the executive branch to his cabinet.

00:23:31.420 I added up the killers one time on his cabinet. There wasn't one. And it's that simple.

00:23:40.280 He has basically a year and a half to get it right this time. And that means people who are loyal to

00:23:48.440 him, people who have triple digit IQs and are canny, cunning and can deliver. It's that straightforward.

00:23:57.700 I mean, he had it right in 2015 and 16 in his campaign. And my God, Chris Christie, the chair of

00:24:04.940 his transition, got it ever so wrong and left a lot of cleanup work. You know better than

00:24:11.940 almost anyone how much cleanup there had to be. We can't do it again. And if we persist with McCarthy

00:24:20.360 and McConnell at this stage, I don't believe it'll be necessary for anyone to do a thing in the

00:24:27.800 Republican Party in 2024 because the left will run over us. We're just invading this list.

00:24:34.740 I think he is going to announce for president. I think he will be the president. I think we'll

00:24:38.800 have his second term. I call it the three-peat. He'll win for the third time, serve for the

00:24:43.760 second. I think his second term will be magnificent. But there's a big but there. They're looking

00:24:50.540 to bleed him out. So none of this happens. And I think that that is, I'm always someone

00:24:55.420 who loves to have a strategic plan, but understand today's work is the most important work we have.

00:25:00.140 I think there's a lot of work to do. And I would not give that as great a leader as he's been,

00:25:06.620 as great as his ideas have been, as great as he's changed American politics and changed the

00:25:10.660 Republican Party and really saved this country. There's nothing, there's no giving here because

00:25:16.280 he's very much like America in Vietnam. He's like right now America in Saigon. He is surrounded

00:25:23.480 by people in the Republican Party that are just not as friendly. You saw this last night with

00:25:29.040 Governor DeSantis' great performance of what Governor DeSantis did in Florida. The knives

00:25:36.000 came out and people are not shy about it. This is a never-Trump movement that's on testosterone.

00:25:41.480 And President Trump's going to have to think through how he works through that because it's

00:25:45.540 not going to go away. It's strong. It's well-financed. It's well-staffed. And it's powerful.

00:25:52.380 And, you know, he's going to have to address that. And understand that, you know, you don't

00:25:57.200 have the luxury of making these kind of, certain states have been made in the past. You just

00:26:01.960 don't. The country doesn't, number one. And I think politically President Trump doesn't.

00:26:06.720 It's got to be a dress of candlestick. And if he does that, he will have, he'll not just

00:26:11.780 win the primary, he'll have a magnificent win in the general election and then a fantastic,

00:26:16.600 glorious second term.

00:26:19.320 There's an ideological fissure that runs through corporate America, through Wall Street, and

00:26:25.320 our political establishment from the Republican perspective. And throughout, they are globalist

00:26:34.260 elites on Wall Street. The corporatists are beyond globalist elites. They're also globalist elites

00:26:41.500 with strong left-wing, even Marxist predilections and philosophy, and have abandoned the Republican

00:26:50.520 Party. And we are left then with a party that is divided not just between RINOs and MAGA,

00:26:58.720 America First interests and supporters. We're left with a party that is bereft of leadership

00:27:07.280 and is simply following the Ken Griffins, as you said, Paul Singer, because the moneyed interests

00:27:16.420 are also the donor class who are also seeking, really, to bring MAGA and America First into line

00:27:25.840 with the globalist elites and call that a compromise, when it's insidious and it is at work right

00:27:33.080 now, in my opinion. Your thoughts?

00:27:36.440 I couldn't agree more. I mean, I think you're right. I think that's what's got to be solved

00:27:41.080 here, right? It's got to be, so look, we're still, after a brutal election, we're still in

00:27:47.080 the fight on, like I said, a bunch of seats in the House to give us a bigger majority

00:27:50.880 in the House to be able to execute our plan, to control the Senate, to control some of these

00:27:56.120 governorships, particularly the ones in Nevada and Arizona, which are critically important.

00:28:05.000 And then you've got leadership. You know, you've got to lay out the investigations next week

00:28:09.020 in the House, how they're going to run it. Wednesday, you get the leadership elections,

00:28:12.720 and you've got the Senate seat in Georgia. It's all in lame duck on top of that. It's going to

00:28:18.680 come fast. It's going to come hard. And, you know, if President Trump is prepared for that,

00:28:24.400 and his team will only be prepared for that, he'll be able to craft this, like in football,

00:28:29.660 enforce your will on the opposition. That's what the key in football is. If you're not,

00:28:34.280 they're going to force their will on you, because people should not, this is not the

00:28:39.720 never Trump movement that tried to stop him in late 2015 or early 2016. That was disorganized,

00:28:48.000 not financed. It was just people yelling over their lunchbox. This is not that. This is quite

00:28:54.260 organized, quite well financed, quite well staffed, and they mean it. And so he's got to take it

00:29:01.300 seriously. If he takes it seriously, good things will happen. But I just hope he's getting the

00:29:08.420 advice he's got to take this seriously, because it's a serious problem, given everything else

00:29:12.760 that's going on, which is going to be quite jam-packed. I think you're exactly right. I think

00:29:18.940 Republicans are having a very difficult time understanding that they are in a war with the

00:29:24.980 left in this country, and in point of fact, are losing badly. As always, we get right against

00:29:31.720 the last word, Steve.

00:29:32.660 I don't think the leadership, I think the one difference, the base and the voters understand

00:29:39.140 that, understand it clearly. That's why they're prepared to sacrifice so much of time and effort,

00:29:43.140 and even they're harder than cash to do that, and back people like Kerry Lake, and back people

00:29:48.300 like Blake Masters, J.D. Vance, people like this. The leadership definitely doesn't think that.

00:29:52.720 They're controlled opposition. In fact, they've made a ton of money not making this an issue,

00:29:57.620 an existential threat, and they're not going to. They're not going to fight the change of

00:30:01.920 the direction of this country. They are hardwired into the problems of this country, and they're

00:30:07.700 not going to get, you know, it's a feature, not a bug, is how they operate. And that's what

00:30:14.360 I, if President Trump fully understands and realizes that, and these people are not his fans,

00:30:20.120 no matter how much he's got in the bar library, kiss a ring or kiss his ass, they're not his

00:30:24.520 friends, and they work against him all the time, then that is, that awakening is the beginning

00:30:29.060 of change. Until we have that, you're just going to have more of the same.

00:30:34.760 I want to conclude with one thought in your response, and that is, I knew that we were in

00:30:39.540 trouble when Brad Parscale resurfaced in the Trump organization. I knew we were in trouble

00:30:47.580 when Ronna McDaniel was still in the leadership of the Republican National Committee. Your thoughts?

00:30:56.020 I will leave any personnel decision out there. It's just, I think it's, you know, it is personalities,

00:31:03.400 but I think it's actually deeper than that. I think it's deeper than the fact of the point you just made

00:31:08.300 a minute ago, is that there's just a fundamental disconnect between what President Trump believes

00:31:15.200 in MAGA and his MAGA and American First policies, and the policies of this, of the elite, of the political

00:31:21.580 uniparty that caters to the powerful and well-connected and moneyed class of Wall Street and the giant

00:31:30.460 corporations that really feel more comfortable in Davos than they do in downtown Detroit with

00:31:37.500 working class people. That's the fundamental difference we have. Yes, personalities come up 0.95

00:31:41.600 and people can say, these guys are strong, these guys are weak, but I think it's something we have

00:31:46.020 that's much deeper, is that the elite of both parties, and particularly the Republican party,

00:31:53.200 the elite of it, are quite comfortable being in controlled opposition. In other words,

00:31:57.000 people come up, you know, phony fights all the time, but they're on the same team with the

00:32:01.160 fundamental basic neoliberal neocon policies. That's the disconnect we have. Once we have that,

00:32:06.860 once everybody on our side is aligned with that, change will come, and I think change can come

00:32:12.180 quickly, because I do think we have a talent base out there now to staff that. Until that comes,

00:32:17.940 we're kind of spinning wheels, and right now we don't have time to spin wheels because there's so many

00:32:21.940 catechismic events that are before us. Indeed, calling for great leadership, and that to me has

00:32:30.520 always been synonymous with Donald J. Trump. It is also very clear to me, and he as a businessman

00:32:38.300 should understand this better than anyone, and that is until you align the interest of the organization,

00:32:46.220 you're going to have havoc, chaos, and poor result and outcome. And unfortunately, that's what we face

00:32:55.420 right now, and we need a leader just like Donald J. Trump to make certain that that is fixed and fixed

00:33:03.420 in a hurry. And as always, we need leaders like Steve Bannon of Bannon's War Room. Steve, we thank you

00:33:11.980 so much. I just want a podcast, brother. I just got a podcast. I'm just a simple, I'm just a simple

00:33:20.380 dumb Nick with a podcast, but I'm always honored to be on here, Lou. I love the Great America Show.

00:33:25.760 Well, thank you so much, and I'm just a simple country boy, and by the way, I'm not poor-mouthing,

00:33:31.260 I'm bragging. Thanks so much, Steve Bannon. We appreciate it. Bye, sir. Bye-bye. All the best. God bless.

00:33:37.300 Thanks, everybody, for being with us today. Thanks to Steve Bannon for being here today and for all he

00:33:42.120 does. Here tomorrow will be Tom Fenton, president of Judicial Watch. Please join us. Until then,

00:33:48.620 God bless you, and may God bless America.

The Great America Show - November 11, 2022

WAR ROOM’S STEVE BANNON PREDICTS GOP WINS FOR LAXALT, MASTERS AND WALKER TO GIVE GOP CONTROL OF HOUSE AND SENATE

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