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Dulcinea

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Mon Jul 14, 2025, 08:18 AM Monday

Bannon warns GOP could lose 40 House seats over Epstein files [View all]

(The Hill) Former White House aide Steve Bannon suggested Friday that the GOP could lose dozens of House seats in the 2026 midterms over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

“You’re going to lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement. If we lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement right now, we ain’t gonna … we’re gonna lose 40 seats in ’26,” he told a live audience during his “War Room” podcast. “We’re gonna lose the president.”

That shift could trigger an upset for Republican lawmakers who managed to obtain a majority in both chambers last November. Democrats have been plotting to retake House and Senate seats in the next election cycle after their sweeping 2024 losses — and turmoil over the Epstein case and backlash from sweeping cuts in the GOP’s recently-signed “big, beautiful” spending package could offer the left some fodder for their 2026 messaging.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bannon-warns-gop-could-lose-133419486.html

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