nealon definitely has quite a media presence. brian, what do you make of that situation, and how strong can the social media with him help him? social media has done a lot for a lot of candidates, let s put it bluntly? you know, this candidate had all of those advantaging in the last election cycle and lost to paul ryan by 70 points. so i think gop primary voters in wisconsin have already taken a very public stand on how they feel about this guy s rhetoric and his positions on the issues. and i think that republican leadership throughout the country has done the same thing. speaker ryan has spoken out time and time again, against republican candidates, or republican office holders, who have crossed the line when it comes to racist comments. mitch mcconnell has been very up front in his taking on of steve bannon, as steve bannon has taken mcconnell on. but mcconnell is right. it takes a real political genius to lose a republican seat in
elections from the daily beast. taking time to take a stand. challenging house speaker paul ryan, saying this about nealon. he s running on a full throated embrace of racism, anti-semitism and grievance. republicans need to draw a line. evan siegfried is here with us. and the former chief of staff to georgia governor nathan deal with us. thank you for joining us, gentlemen. i want to start out with you, evan, you rightly point out in this article that sarah palin, steve bannon have both supported nealon. and steve bannon has rejected him. and steve bannon had supported roy moore. first of all, what is steve
alabama. and that s what we re up against this year. bannon s still going to have lot of juice, he s going to have funding tour primary challengers but if we get more roy moors, we re going to put it in jeopardy. there are more than 450 seats up for grabs in congress. the economy, president trump s approval ratings at 35%, not particularly something to brag about. the approval ratings for congress, not something to brag about either. but the economic numbers we re seeing are. i m wondering, evan, is there a belief that those economic numbers will supersede other issues going to the polls in the midterms? ask governor elect and
bannon s potency moving forward in the elections, and two, do you think he ll be rejected? well steve bannon he supported roy moore and brought paul nealon with him. he was campaigning saying he s a great guy. and it s us against them and the staek establishment. steve bannon said well, he s distancing himself from him and brig breitbart didn t help. this is why you don t allow children at the grown-up s table. what we re seeing here, what steve bannon is realizing when you go out and embrace anti-semitism, like paul nealon did, like shilling for shekels and other things.