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Steve Bannon recruited Jeff Sessions to run as anti-immigrant candidate before backing Trump
Steve Bannon recruited Jeff Sessions to run as anti-immigrant candidate before backing Trump
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/steve-bannon-recruited-jeff-sessions-to-run-as-anti-immigrant-candidate-before-backing-trump-report/
According to a report in New York Times Magazine, in 2013 Bannon invited Sessions and his close aide, Stephen Miller, to his D.C. townhouse for dinner and to talk politics.
Bannon had become intrigued by an article he read at Real Clear Politics, entitled, “The Case of the Missing White Voters,” that attributed Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama to the fact that whites who voted in the 2008 election stayed away in droves in 2012. According to author Sean Trende, those white voters disliked Obama but also were put off by Romney’s wealth and elitism.
According Bannon, those voters could be brought back to the polls by playing on both anger at jobs disappearing overseas and by scapegoating immigrants to the U.S. who were accused of stealing jobs from Americans.
According to the New York Times article, the dinner with Sessions was no fluke after the Alabama Senator made the case to his colleagues that the GOP should give up chasing after Latino votes and instead emphasize reducing the number of immigrants coming into the country and beefing up border security as a way to save working-class jobs.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/steve-bannon-recruited-jeff-sessions-to-run-as-anti-immigrant-candidate-before-backing-trump-report/
According to a report in New York Times Magazine, in 2013 Bannon invited Sessions and his close aide, Stephen Miller, to his D.C. townhouse for dinner and to talk politics.
Bannon had become intrigued by an article he read at Real Clear Politics, entitled, “The Case of the Missing White Voters,” that attributed Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama to the fact that whites who voted in the 2008 election stayed away in droves in 2012. According to author Sean Trende, those white voters disliked Obama but also were put off by Romney’s wealth and elitism.
According Bannon, those voters could be brought back to the polls by playing on both anger at jobs disappearing overseas and by scapegoating immigrants to the U.S. who were accused of stealing jobs from Americans.
According to the New York Times article, the dinner with Sessions was no fluke after the Alabama Senator made the case to his colleagues that the GOP should give up chasing after Latino votes and instead emphasize reducing the number of immigrants coming into the country and beefing up border security as a way to save working-class jobs.