Bannon on loss in Virginia: 'Destroyed the Republican Party for a generation'
Former White House strategist and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon on Wednesday excoriated Virginia's outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, blaming him for the Republican Party's staggering loss to the state's first female governor-elect, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, Mediaite reports.
Bannon spoke on his "WarRoom" podcast, saying the results were a "disaster" for the party and telling Youngkin his political career is over.
"In the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, bro, what are you spending time in Iowa [for]? You just ended your political career last night. As a native Virginian, you destroyed, you, destroyed the Republican Party for a generation. There are seats in the House of Delegates that are unfathomable that were lost last night, to a supermajority, a super majority in the House," Bannon said.
Bannon also criticized Spanberger's opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears (R), whom Youngkin backed, calling her a "Trump-hating disaster."
"Virginia’s gonna go 10-1 in the House. They’re gonna be like New England, or they’re gonna be like Illinois, or they’re gonna be California, the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a disgrace that you push that lieutenant governor that you weaponized against Trump in ’21 and ’22 when you wanted [Gov. Ron] DeSantis," he said.
"You weaponized her, and then you rigged it that there wasn’t even a primary. She’s going to be the candidate and she was a unmitigated Trump-hating disaster," Bannon said of Earle-Sears.
Bannon also criticized President Donald Trump's "lack of engagement" in the campaigns.
"They’ve had no engagement in Trump in any of these elections. He wasn’t engaged in New Jersey. He’s not engaged in the commonwealth of Virginia. He’s not engaged in New York City. He’s not engaged in California,” he said.
