Steve Bannon, one of the architects behind Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and a top advisor when Trump moved into the White House, said it will be “payback mode” if Trump wins re-elecion in 2020.
“You’re going to get pure Trump off the chain. Four years of Donald Trump in payback mode,” Bannon said in an interview with Politico’s Ben Schreckinger.
Bannon has said in the past that Trump would win a second term, partly because he doesn’t believe the Democrats have anyone that can faceoff against Trump favorably.
He told Politico, “Every other day I see another person jumping into the race…. I don’t see anybody in that field as of now who can take on Trump one-on-one.”
He also took a shot at the prospect of Hillary Clinton making another run, “If they don’t think that they’ve got somebody that can beat him, the vampire is going to be in the bullpen. She did get 63 million votes.”
Steve Bannon has some thoughts about 2020, via @SchreckReports: pic.twitter.com/ustJeLrp9t
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) April 11, 2019
Bannon also spoke on Fox Business Network’s “WSJ at Large” show last month, were he said that recent elections – the Tea Party in 2010, Trump in 2016, the Democrats taking the House in 2018 – show that elections are now not about motivation, but mobilization.
Bannon left the White House in August 2017. A few months later in January 2018 Trump attacked Bannon and in one tweet called him “Sloppy Steve.”
But Bannon has continued to voice his support for Trump and his policies.
