Bannon Says Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris Are 'Most Dangerous Ticket for Trump'

[DonViejo]

Trump’s former campaign chairman talks 2020 during a Rome gathering of the right, comparing Hillary Clinton to a ‘vampire.’

Barbie Latza Nadeau
03.21.19 1:53 PM ET

ROME—At first Steve Bannon looked a little out of place sitting at a massive desk inside the antique Angelica Library, a stone’s throw from Piazza Navona. But when one knows that scenes from Angels and Demons were filmed here, it starts to make a little more sense.

A guest of a conservative Italian group called Lettera 22, the former campaign chairman for Donald Trump, was here to talk about the importance of populism in upcoming European parliamentary elections but was happy to take a question on the 2020 U.S. elections.

“Beto on the ticket with Harris is the most dangerous ticket for Trump,” he said, referring to O’Rourke and Kamala Harris, who are running to unseat his boss.

“But don’t forget, the vampire is still alive: Hillary Clinton,” Bannon said. He then mused how someone might drive a stake through her heart.

Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, saved his best vitriol for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who happens to be in Rome as well.

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[Socal31]

1. He put the lure in the water.....

Who is hungry?

[customerserviceguy]

3. Ha!

That would be Bannon's dream ticket for Trump to go up against.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Why do you think Beto is a pushover?

His gauzy centrism which alienates some folks here and I can see why is what would make him a formidable general election candidate. Plus he's charismatic.

[customerserviceguy]

14. To me

he's all sizzle and no steak. Yes, charismatic, rock star and all that. But he'd be up against a master showman who has already shown how to use personal popularity to do something that no one thought was possible. And now, Trump adds to that all the power of incumbency.

The skateboard and the dental hygiene thing make him look like a bit of a flake. Also, he is not a tough, gritty fighter, so far, and Trump will eat him up on a debate stage. He'll have a much tougher time with debating Sanders, Biden, Warren or Harris.
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I see that your avatar is President Obama. Yes, he had the charisma, too, but he also came across as a serious person, ever mindful of keeping on message. A combination like that only comes around every 20-25 years or so. I would argue that Reagan had it to some extent, too.

[Tipperary]

19. Yes, and let us not forget that he ate "regenerative dirt" while on his vision quest.

Even brought some back for his family to eat. His hygienist will not be happy!

[customerserviceguy]

21. Yeah, I cringed on that one

Who knows how many more of these moments to come over the next year?

It's one thing to consume a strange food to express solidarity with another culture, but dirt???

[Tipperary]

22. I would love to know more about this lol. Someone has a great con going in New Mexico.

I wonder if you have to buy it, or what. That was just the latest article that made me wince. The whole Vanity Fair article made me just think - yikes. Cringeworthy indeed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. A Beto-Harris or a Biden Harris ticket would be formidable.

[BlueFlorida]

18. Or Beto-Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown will deliver Ohio and MI and perhaps Indiana and help with PA.

[customerserviceguy]

15. He's screwing with you

What makes you think Bannon would ever tell the truth about something like that? Was it the follow up comment comparing Hillary to a vampire?

[SKKY]

5. Steve Bannon can go F*&K himself. And can take Stephen Miller along for the ride...

...Please, don't give these jackasses a platform. Least of all here.

[Amimnoch]

10. +1.

[rogue emissary]

6. I like both of them and a few other, but Bannon is full of it.

He's not some master mind that ran a winning election. He jumped on board a campaign that was willing to illegally work with foreign government and use their resources. They cheated their way into victory, so he can STFU.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Just because he's evil doesn't mean he's stupid.

[rogue emissary]

11. The suggestion that he's some intellect like Karl Rove for an example

Is miss guided.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Agreed

And part of not being as stupid as he looks is to see if he can cause some misdirection.

Any GOP-leaning person I have in my acquaintance will admit after a few beers that they really fear Biden, who can rebuild the blue wall. And if Biden picks anyone besides a straight white male as VP, that really freaks them out.

[Nanjeanne]

8. Well if Bannon says it - it must be true!!!!

[namahage]

29. Bannon also said that Bernie would have been "much tougher" to beat than Hillary:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409071-bannon-predicts-three-way-race-in-2020

“If Bernie Sanders had an ounce of Avenatti’s fearlessness, he would have been the Democratic nominee and we would have had a much tougher time beating him,” Bannon said Friday.

[Nanjeanne]

30. Didnt care what Bannon said in 2016 and don't care in 2019. About anything.

[snowybirdie]

12. And we should

listen to what Bannon says because?????

[OhZone]

13. I don't trust him.

I think he's hoping we'll support Beto.

Although I think he's Oh-k.

[comradebillyboy]

17. Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

Although I would prefer a Harris/Beto ticket.

[Garrett78]

24. When he says "Beto on the ticket with Harris," I read that as Harris-O'Rourke. And he's right.

I think a Harris-O'Rourke ticket would produce record-breaking Democratic turnout.

All this talk about needing to nominate a white male centrist in order to flip Trump voters in PA/MI/WI is utter nonsense. Way too much analysis is being based on a highly unique set of 2016 circumstances. Many factors were at play then that won't be in 2020. And way too many continue to buy into the false narrative about "white working class economic anxiety" leading to Trump's "win."

Turning out the base (particularly POC and young people) in greater numbers than in 2016 will be the key to winning in 2020. The sharp contrast of Harris-O'Rourke vs. Trump-Pence is what we need.

[Gothmog]

20. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[Cha]

23. What! No Gabbard?

[TheFarseer]

25. I don't think I'd take his advice on picking our candidate

Who even knows if he's shooting straight, trying to lead us into a trap, trying to stir the pot or just saying something off the cuff. Don't pay him any mind.

[RandySF]

26. Don't listen to anything they have to say about our primaries.

[shanny]

27. We should definitely take Bannon's advice.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. Lemme double-check what Putin has to say on the subject. nt

[Autumn]

31. Trust Bannon to use the "Don't Throw Me in the Briar Patch" trick.

Donald Trumps 2 bit Rove.

Republican strategists trying to game Sen. Barack Obama's choice for a running mate are focusing more and more on the possibility that he might pick former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a friend of labor and blue-collar workers. "Gephardt is the one we're most afraid of," said a key GOP strategist and Bush ally.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/7/2/545589/-?

[McCamy Taylor]

32. The GOP will attempt to get their voters to vote in the Democratic primary.

So, when their spokespeople say "That candidate is someone we fear" it is not necessarily a case of Br'er Rabbit and the Briar Patch. Sometimes they are actually cuing their voters "Get out there and vote for someone else in the Dem primary."

[MineralMan]

33. Who gives a damn what Steve Bannon thinks?

He's lying. Count on it.

[Gothmog]

34. The Democrats Trump Fears Most

trump is worried about three possible Democratic nominees https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/24/the-democrats-trump-fears-most/

“President Trump has publicly boasted that he could beat any of his 2020 Democratic challengers. But privately, several members of the Trump campaign see a few who could pose a threat to his re-election, and are in the early stages of building out their strategy for attack,” Axios reports.

“The three candidates that seem to concern the Trump campaign most are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke. That’s in no particular order, and you’ll get a different answer depending on who you talk to.”

I think that any of these three could turn Texas blue

[Paladin]

35. I hate to agree with an evil prick like Bannon.....

….but Harris/O'Rourke remains my dream team for 2020.