Breitbart’s Bannon Keynote Speaker at California GOP Convention
Politico reports that Bannon’s Friday address should set an anti-establishment tone for the convention and inject some enthusiasm in California’s grassroots Republican base, which has been depressed by years of battling their own party leadership—plagued by a decade of declining registration, punctuated by repeated electoral failure and a host of internal scandals:
Since party conventions tend to attract the most “ardent activists,” and a number of members of the California GOP Congressional delegation in “Hillary” districts like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) and Rep. Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) have distanced themselves from Trump and moved to the left in order to save their seats. It’s likely an attempt to shore up flagging grassroots support among the party faithful.
The Los Angeles Times notes that the former Chief Strategist to President Trump—fresh off a huge, underdog victory with Judge Roy Moore in Alabama—has declared war on establishment Republicans who’ve failed to support and advance the Trump agenda:
California’s GOP establishment controlled behind the scenes by a bow-tied liberal billionaire named Charles Munger Jr.—who has spent tens of millions of dollars to keep conservative candidates out of office, should be careful what it wishes for.
Bannon is gearing up for a war on the very same failed policies of the California GOP establishment that have weakened the party that launched one of the most conservative standard-bearers of all time: first electing Ronald Reagan governor of California, and later President.
The dinner at which Bannon is speaking is sure to excite a lot of ticket sales inside as the faithful flock to hear the “Trump whisperer” speak—as well as incite the predicted anti-Trump protestors outside.
Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman and Author, currently on a book tour for his new book: Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless. He also ran for governor in 2014.
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