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Bannon: Insurgent left candidates 'very smart' not to campaign on Trump
Key takeaways
- They campaign as anti-establishment.
- But they re very much like the Tea Party, like old Breitbart.
- Bannon complimented their messaging, referring to it as sophisticated but noted that it clearly resonates with people across the country, and not just in New York.
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They campaign as anti-establishment. Very smartly, if you look at their campaigning, they re not really even campaigning on Trump, Bannon said in an interview with Politico published Thursday about the rise in democratic socialist candidates across the nation.
He gets a mention. But they re very much like the Tea Party, like old Breitbart. They re going against the Democratic establishment, he added.
Bannon complimented their messaging, referring to it as sophisticated but noted that it clearly resonates with people across the country, and not just in New York.
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