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BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 12/21/17 09:41 AM EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says Steve Bannon and his allies are not a factor in my life and have no impact on Republicans ability to run the Senate or keep their majority in 2018.
McConnell doesnt like to mention the former White House chief strategist by name and when asked about his political nemesis at a News Shapers event Thursday sponsored by Axios, insisted, I dont have any observations on him at all. But when pressed, McConnell, only referring to Bannon as that element, said hes not a factor in my life, and has no impact on our ability to function in the Senate nor will it have any impact on the campaign.
Bannon, who has returned to Breitbart News, has called on McConnell to resign as Senate majority leader and last month predicted that he doesnt expect the Kentucky Republicans to be in the GOP leadership a year from now.
McConnell told Axioss Mike Allen on Thursday that the feeling is mutual and blamed Bannon for Republicans losing the Alabama special election earlier this month, which shrinks their Senate majority to 51 seats next year.
The people youre talking about, that element, just managed to blow a Senate race in the reddest state in America, that is not a formula for victory, he said.
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)lead to blowing the Senate race, Pal.
You, Senator, and Bannon are two foully rotted peas in a pod. Id like few things more than seeing you both rot in a more permanent place.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)Is he a "factor in your life"?