{"id":84808,"date":"2017-09-28T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84808"},"modified":"2017-09-28T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:29:22","slug":"theres-a-time-for-war-bannon-vows-full-assault-on-republican-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=84808","title":{"rendered":"“There’s A Time For War”: Bannon Vows Full Assault On Republican Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Following Roy Moore’s decisive win in Alabama earlier this week (something we covered\u00a0here<\/a>), Steve Bannon has predictably seized on the momentum vowing that it is only the beginning of his “war” against the Republican establishment.\u00a0 Per\u00a0McClatchy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThere\u2019s a time and season for everything under heaven. And sometimes there\u2019s a time for peace. And sometimes there\u2019s a time for war,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0he told a raucous, religious revival-style crowd packed into a barn.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah!\u201d a woman yelled back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to hug out our differences,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to fight for our differences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With several seats opening up in the Senate in 2018, including Senator\u00a0Bob Corker’s<\/a>\u00a0of Tennessee who recently announced his retirement, conservatives see no reason why they can’t beat out establishment Senators across the deep south.<\/p>\n

\nThe hard-right\u2019s fight for total control of Donald Trump’s Washington is just getting started.<\/p>\n

The victory of deeply conservative candidate Roy Moore in Tuesday\u2019s hotly contested Alabama Senate primary has emboldened activists and potential candidates alike, threatening to set off a wave of tough GOP races and ushering in a new era of internecine Republican warfare that party leaders had hoped would end when they won control of the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind that this is going to be a determining factor for a lot of Deep South states, no question,\u201d<\/strong>said Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel, who lost a hugely controversial primary contest against Sen. Thad Cochran in 2014 but is considering another Senate primary run in 2018.\u00a0\u201cIf Alabama can send a true conservative to Washington, and Texas can send a true conservative to Washington, so can Mississippi and Tennessee and Florida and other states.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Bannon\"<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s not just the deep south.\u00a0 Arizona is also likely to draw a lot of attention from Bannon allies as Senator Jeff Flake, a consistent and vocal Trump Critic, is up for re-election and Senator John McCain is suffering from severe health issues which could result in another special election at any moment.<\/p>\n

\nLed by Breitbart News head Steve Bannon, Trump\u2019s former chief strategist, they sought to make the race a referendum on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has grown increasingly unpopular with the base. And they took Moore\u2019s win as a sign that other incumbents will be vulnerable to the same kind of anti-Washington messaging, even though it\u2019s the Republican Party that controls the White House, the House and the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can defeat a guy like Luther Strange by simply tying him to Mitch McConnell, what does that mean for guys like Jeff Flake and Dean Heller, who are literally Never Trumpers, or a guy like Roger Wicker, who\u2019s in Senate leadership?\u201d<\/strong>said Andy Surabian, a senior adviser to Great America Alliance, a group with close ties to Bannon that supported Moore in Alabama. His comment was in reference to GOP senators from Arizona, Nevada and Mississippi.\u00a0\u201cI hope none of them have a long-term lease in Washington D.C.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arizona is an obvious next priority for many of these Trump-aligned activists and organizations.<\/p>\n

There,\u00a0Flake\u2014a frequent and vocal Trump critic whom Trump has clashed with repeatedly\u2014is already facing a primary challenge from Kelli Ward, who unsuccessfully primaried Sen. John McCain last cycle but this time around has received Twitter support from Trump.<\/strong>\u00a0Pro-Ward efforts have been boosted by major Trump donor Robert Mercer, who is close to Bannon. Eric Beach, the co-chair of Great America Alliance who is also assisting Ward, devoted space to the race in a broader USA Today op-ed published after Alabama.<\/p>\n

\u201cEstablishment, beware,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWe\u2019re coming for you in 2018.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Nevada also looks to be a target…
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\nSome conservative activists have also turned their attention to the Nevada Senate race. Trump, as president, hasn\u2019t been as critical of Heller as he has been of Flake, but some see an opportunity to highlight Heller\u2019s past criticism of Trump from the 2016 campaign, something they expect will rile up a conservative base already miffed that Hillary Clinton won Nevada (though Heller said last month\u2014close to a year after the election\u2014that he did vote for Trump).<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Heller\u2019s primary challenger, Danny Tarkanian, tweeted his congratulations to Moore and added:\u00a0\u201cPrimary voters showed they’ll drain the swamp across country.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0In an interview with McClatchy ahead of the election,\u00a0he argued that Heller would be in a weaker position with the staunchly pro-Trump GOP base than Strange was, because Strange embraced Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen that Luther Strange was a Never Trumper, that he did anything against Trump,\u201d said Tarkanian, who has run for office multiple times before but met with Bannon recently. \u201cOn the contrary, Heller was one of the first Never Trumpers in Nevada. He cost Trump the election in Nevada.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while it’s impossible to predict how these various races will play out, it seems fairly certain that 2018 won’t be a predictable and\/or tame off-year election season.<\/p>\n

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