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Doug Ducey of Arizona and Brian Kemp of Georgia over their acceptance of Biden’s victory in their states, the Republican Governors Association barred him from entering a members-only event.Īlong with the election, cancel culture comes up often. After Lindell told Bannon on air last week that he planned to confront Govs. Mike Lindell, the MAGA-famous conspiracy theorist and businessman whose MyPillow products Bannon advertises, is another regular. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., returned to the 'War Room' for a sympathetic ear. (Gaetz has not been charged with a crime and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.) A day after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., condemned her for equating pandemic safety measures with the Holocaust, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., continues to appear amid a federal sex trafficking investigation that is in part focused on whether he had a sexual relationship with a minor. Some of the GOP's most polarizing figures are frequent guests.

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'I frequently update him on who's on the show and who's doing what.' The former president, he added, 'definitely has an appreciation for the work that Bannon and the show are doing.' 'We present him with clips,' Miller said of Trump.

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Miller said the former president - often referred to as an 'audience of one' for those who wish to please him on TV and radio - is familiar with 'War Room.' Jason Miller, a Trump adviser who co-hosted with Bannon in the show's early days, compared his sway to the late Rush Limbaugh, who helped grow the conservative movement in the 1990s.

Trump pushed Bannon out of his chief White House strategist post in 2017 and later dubbed him ' Sloppy Steve' but pardoned him from wire fraud and money laundering charges in the final hours of his presidency. The show, which debuted ahead of the first of Trump's two impeachments and refocused last year during the coronavirus outbreak, speaks to Bannon's sustained influence among the Trump faithful - though the relationship between him and the former president has not been without its stumbles. And Bannon has taken a particular interest in Pennsylvania and Ohio, two states where next year's primaries for governor and Senate are shaping up as big Trump loyalty tests. Eric Greitens, the former Missouri governor who resigned over a sexual misconduct allegation and is now running for Senate, is a frequent guest. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as chair of the House Republican Conference. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., dropped by this month as she worked to unseat Trump critic Rep. 'I think politicians see that need to reach that audience.' 'And we pride ourselves on that,' he said, making no secret that he views the last election similarly. Bannon said he's jokingly told some, 'We're with the dead-enders now,' a reference to those who believe what Democrats and some Republicans term 'the big lie' - that the election was stolen.

The podcast is a home for the most ardent Trump backers. Bannon encourages skepticism about vaccines one minute and peddles zinc and Vitamin D pills the next. On this show, Joe Biden is not the real president, and the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a Wuhan, China, lab has been a hot topic for more than a year.

It’s routinely among the most popular podcasts on Apple’s platform and streams live twice each weekday and once every Saturday through the Real America’s Voice network.

With Fox News appearing to lose favor among some of Trump’s most diehard fans, 'War Room' appears to be gaining steam as a safe space for the far right. Ambitious Republicans are flocking there for the chance to demonstrate loyalty to Bannon's former boss and pitch themselves to Trump’s voters - and, more indirectly, to Trump himself. Steve Bannon has a new MAGA megaphone, and Republicans eager to shine in a party still tethered to former President Donald Trump know it.īannon, the former Breitbart News executive and one of the architects of Trump's Make America Great Again movement, has increasingly leveraged his 'War Room: Pandemic' podcast into a kind of proxy primary.

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