Skip to main content

Trending

  • Meta
  • Debt ceiling
  • Twitter

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Utility Navigation

  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Media Matters for America

Main navigation

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Media Matters for America

  • Nav
  • Search

Main navigation

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Trending

  • Meta
  • Debt ceiling
  • Twitter

Utility Navigation

  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
bannon-black-bg.png

Media Matters / Sarah Wasko

Steve Bannon's final message before the midterms: Mail-in ballots and Democratic votes are illegitimate

One day before midterms, Steve Bannon floods the zone with shit

Written by Madeline Peltz

Research contributions from John Knefel & Justin Horowitz

Published 11/07/22 2:13 PM EST

Share

  • Email
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Print

Comment

  • Comments

One day before the midterm elections, podcaster Steve Bannon, of “flood the zone with shit” fame, pushed a spectrum of baseless claims that the Democrats are going to steal the midterm elections unless the MAGA movement stops them. He hosted multiple election-denying candidates and repeatedly attacked mail-in ballots as well as a press release from the Fetterman campaign explaining how vote counting works in Pennsylvania.

In an interview with election-denying Pennsylvania congressional candidate Jim Bognet, Bannon said that Democrats are “going to pull every trick in the book” to try to “steal” the midterm elections. He added, “They will not lose graciously. This is going to be very nasty and it's going to be very tough and we're going to be gentlemen and gentlewomen about it but steely resolve. There's no chance they're going to steal any of this.”

Video file

Citation From the November 7, 2022 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic

In an interview with Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and Christian nationalist election conspiracy theorist Doug Mastriano, Bannon read from a memo sent to reporters by Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman’s campaign that outlines the expected timeline for when votes will be counted in the state’s elections. Bannon used this memo to claim Democrats are “playing the same games again, right, of how they stole this in Pennsylvania in 2020.”

Video file

Citation From the November 7, 2022 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room Pandemic

After a break, he added that in Pennsylvania “they’re pulling the same old mail-in ballot scam.” He also claimed that supposedly delaying vote counting is “how they steal it.”

Later, he said that secretaries of state races “may be the key that picks the lock” and is “what they’re totally melting down about,” then interviewed Nevada Secretary of State candidate Jim Marchant. Marchant is the leader of a QAnon-tied coalition of far-right candidates for secretary of state who appeared on War Room last week and said Democrats “can’t win” future elections if his group’s picks are elected.

During today’s appearance, Bannon said Democrats in Nevada are “professional voting thieves” who have “perfected the model.” Marchant then said, “The only way that they could steal it, so to speak, is with these universal mail-in ballots which we have here in Nevada.” Bannon added, “Don’t think they’re going to steal this in some backroom deal. People are all over this right now. We’re going to contest all of this. Only legitimate, certifiable chain-of-custody votes count, OK? Not all votes.”

Video file

Citation From the November 7, 2022 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic

Bannon repeatedly hyped the idea that Nevada Democrats are “professional thieves” throughout the show.

He closed the show with pillow magnate and voting machine conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. Lindell said, “I want all the bad guys out there to know” that “we are watching” including “what’s going on with the computers and the machines. So I’m putting them all on notice.” He also claimed that “we are going to override these algorithms tomorrow” and noted he has “cyber guys with me.”

Video file

Citation From the November 7, 2022 edition of Real America's Voice's War Room: Pandemic

For more about how Bannon has united fringe activists and mainstream Republican institutions to push bogus voter fraud claims ahead of the 2022 midterms, click here.

The Latest

  1. Fox News hosts say Fox employees don’t take sick days, “we just come in and cough all over each other”

    Video & Audio 02/03/23 6:19 PM EST

  2. Facebook struggled to control election misinformation in 2022. Now it is letting Trump, the leader of the election denial movement, back on the platform.

    Article 02/03/23 12:55 PM EST

  3. LA Times’ sympathetic profile of Fox News’ Bill Melugin lets him off the hook for his role in the network’s racism

    Article 02/03/23 12:18 PM EST

  4. Daily Wire host complains about a Spanish GOP response to the State of the Union: “We're going to out-woke the woke”

    Video & Audio 02/03/23 11:37 AM EST

  5. Tucker Carlson gave a friendly, conspiracy-laden interview to notorious 9-11 Truther and anti-vaxxer Catherine Austin Fitts

    Article 02/03/23 11:11 AM EST

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • …
  • Next page ››

In This Article

  • Steve Bannon

    Steve-Bannon-MMFA-Tag.png
  • Voter Fraud and Suppression

    Voter Suppression
Comments
0 Comments
Share Count
0 Shares

Related

  1. Matt Schlapp tells Steve Bannon CPAC will be “a little bit Hungarian” in its treatment of the press

    Video & Audio 02/02/23 12:24 PM EST

  2. Steve Bannon on Speaker McCarthy's remarks after meeting with Biden about debt limit: “It's the best I've ever seen McCarthy”

    Video & Audio 02/01/23 5:33 PM EST

  3. Sheriff Mark Dannels uses frequent right-wing media appearances to demonize immigrants and push falsehoods about the border

    Article 01/31/23 2:29 PM EST

Media Matters for America

Sign up for email updates

Footer menu

  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Submissions
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

© 2023 Media Matters for America