U.S. President Donald Trump will face with his former White House chief strategist, Stephen Bannon in Alabama, The Hill Reports.
Bannon and other Trump loyalists are furiously pushing for Roy Moore, the conservative that will oppose Trump’s choice in the Republican primary for the Alabama Senate seat vacated by the Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore is an outspoken critic of the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Washington “swamp” who drew controversy on Monday for talking about “reds and yellows” to refer to Asian-Americans and American Indians.
Breitbart News supports Moore in this game.
With Bannon back in control of the conservative outlet after his White House ouster, Breitbart is sending Matthew Boyle, its top political reporter, across the state to cover the race ahead of Sept. 26, when voters head to the polls.
Former Breitbart writer Sebastian Gorka, who served as deputy assistant to Trump before being forced out of the White House, will campaign for Moore this weekend along with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Their events are coordinated by the pro-Trump outside group Great America Alliance, which is acting as Bannon’s political arm.
Trump will visit Huntsville, Ala., on Saturday to campaign for Sen. Luther Strange, the Republican backed by McConnell.
He’ll thus be in Alabama to back the establishment candidate, pitting him against old supporters who once viewed the president as the ultimate anti-establishment politician.
Some conservatives are at wit’s end in trying to figure out how Trump came to side with McConnell in Alabama.
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