Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon slammed establishment Senate Republicans for not condemning Sen. Bob Corkers, R-Tenn., and his attacks on President Trump.
“The day of taking a few nice conservative votes and hiding are over,” he said Saturday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
The comments before the gathering of evangelical activists is part of a larger effort by Bannon to stoke challenges to establishment Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
He said right now there is a “season of war on the GOP establishment. We need to move with urgency.”
Corker got into a war of words with Trump starting last weekend when Trump issued a series of tweets critical of the retiring senator. Among his complaints, Corker tweeted that the White House is like an “adult day care center” and said that Trump is leading the country on a path to World War III.
Bannon, who resumed his duties running Breitbart News after he left the White House, was infuriated that more establishment Republicans like Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Deb Fisher, R-Neb., didn’t condemn Corker. He also called on them to not vote for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Bannon pointed to the primary election of conservative insurgent Roy Moore over Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., who got millions of dollars from the super PAC affiliated with McConnell.
