Gingrich to Hannity: Bannon war on GOP incumbents 'stunningly stupid'
BY JOE CONCHA - 10/11/17 10:43 AM EDT
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) slammed former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon on Tuesday, telling Sean Hannity on his radio program that the Breitbart chairman's strategy for creating a civil war inside the Republican party is "stunningly stupid."
The perspective from Gingrich comes after Bannon, who resigned from his White House post on Aug. 18, declared on Oct. 9 in his own interview with Hannity on Fox News that he is looking to challenge every sitting Republican lawmaker with the exception of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), adding "no one is safe."
"There's a coalition coming together that is going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz," Bannon said.
"There's a basic agenda that Trump ran on and won. He carried states Republicans haven't carried in living memory — Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. This agenda works. The American people voted for it," he added. Gingrich pushed back on Hannity's nationally-syndicated radio show Tuesday when asked about Bannon's comments.
“The point I would make as a strategist is you got 10 Democrats up next year in states Trump carried,” Gingrich noted. “You have six Democrats up next year in states Trump carried by a huge margin. Now you take the amount of money Bannon is going to raise. If he spent that money in North Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia — the fact is you would have such a big Republican majority, you’d pass the stuff you guys want to pass."
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