Steve Bannon says midterm polling is a “psyop” that is “out there pretty strongly”
Bannon: “I want to make sure everybody understands that our fate is still in our hands, no matter what the media is telling you, no matter what they're saying about a blue tsunami, a blue wave.”
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From the September 28, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Here's how I'm — we're going to connect the dots right here, Alex. Why did War Room partner with RAV, and what does RAV stand for? RAV is a platform. As you know, our content is very different than Fox, right? You can see that from Bolling, and Stinch, and Solomon, and the War Room, Posobiec, all of it.
This is a platform that was built really for the grassroots to make sure the grassroots had a voice and the grassroots had a platform. Because in a populist nationalist movement, the grassroots is everything. In the history of this, from 2020 and the stolen election and President Trump going into the years in the wilderness, RAV and War Room being there hammering every day, the '22 midterm, which, as Alex DeGrasse was on here, did not turn — we took the House in a monumental win. We did not, get the 35 or 40 seats that we hoped, but there's a lesson there even for today. Then an amazing comeback of President Trump in the primary and then the 2024 election, just incredible.
Why? Because the grassroots had a platform. They had a platform they could come on and make their case to the public and help them network, behind the scenes RAV's done so much, not just covering the rallies, but more importantly, giving a means of communications. Whether it's the coalition out in Vegas, whether it's Steve Stern, whether it's the precinct strategy, whether it's all the grassroots people we've had on here that have tried to take over the state parties with all that.
And now, Alex, I'm going to do the cold open and cook on the other side. But that's where we are today. I want to make sure everybody understands that our fate is still in our hands, no matter what the media is telling you, no matter what they're saying about a blue tsunami, a blue wave. I mean, even Charlie Cook's not saying that. He's calling it a red undertow, but he's publicly not coming out and saying it's a blue wave yet or blue tsunami. But that psyop is out there pretty strongly, Alex DeGrasse?
ALEX DEGRASSE (GUEST): Yeah, I mean, it's all, this is the probably the biggest psyop we've probably seen other than maybe the re-emergence of Trump politically as a candidate when they told us it wasn't possible.
Now, you know, we do control our own destiny, of course, if the base comes out to vote, if you can put your shoulders to the wheel, if you can man the ramparts, almost in a way maybe one more time, at least in the Donald Trump era as president, right, Steve? But nothing is decided yet.
I mean, all of this is crazy talk from people that are absolutely maniacally focused on suppressing the Republican vote going into the midterms, because they know all of these races are extremely tight, which is the main point I want to say today. I mean, these are tight races across the board. Nothing's out of the game yet.
Everything will be decided on who gets out to vote, and the posse and the grassroots will be the biggest player in that game, of course, because no one is better at turning out the vote than us, of course, and we just we have to get this done, Steve, and we can.
You can't give up, you know, my phone's blowing up. People go, oh, you know —
BANNON: No, this is not hopium. You saw this in the reverse in '22.
DEGRASSE: Exactly.
BANNON: Remember we had thought we had 30 to 35 seats, maybe more in play. They were all tight as we expanded the map there, you got the same tight - and the Democrats did a good job at that time, particularly on TikTok with these young women. That was all about the Dobbs decision, remember, and they turned out and, Roe v Wade, and we picked up, you know, when we picked up what — we picked up, I think 12,15, we got enough to take the House and make some monumental change. First time a speaker was ever removed in American history.
So this fight's down and we're not here to give you hopium. Hey, it is a struggle, and it's all going to come down to the base, the grassroots MAGA base plus, and that plus is low propensity voters and Make America Healthy Again.