Bannon: Insurgent left candidates ‘very smart’ not to campaign on Trump

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said the insurgent left candidates in the Democratic party are “very smart” not to campaign on bucking President Trump. 

“They campaign as anti-establishment. Very smartly, if you look at their campaigning, they’re not really even campaigning on Trump,” Bannon said in an interview with Politico published Thursday about the rise in democratic socialist candidates across the nation.

“He gets a mention. But they’re very much like the Tea Party, like old Breitbart. They’re going against the Democratic establishment,” he added. 

Bannon complimented their messaging, referring to it as “sophisticated” but noted that it “clearly resonates” with people across the country, and not just in New York. 

Some Democratic leaders have asserted that the growing crowd of democratic socialists within the party is limited to the Empire State, where three congressional candidates with ties to democratic........

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