Bannon warns GOP could lose 40 House seats over Epstein files

[Dulcinea]

(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

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Make that 48.

It's coming. There is no upside rebound to the predicament the GOP finds itself in. Corruption and economic malaise as far as the eye can see. Democrats have no skin in that game.

[FakeNoose]

2. I'll take it! Let the heads roll ...

Many of those MAGA-cultists should never have won anyway. They've already shown their incompetence and worthlessness.

[Skittles]

7. being a Trump suckup is the #1 "qualification"

competence and worth mean absolutely nothing to these corrupt fascists

[Fullduplexxx]

3. It's way too early in the election cycle to start thinking like that this will blow over and then they'll fall in line

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Make it a hundred.

And clean out the Senate, too.

[NCDem47]

5. YAY!

[dutch777]

6. Not sure how you can tell that vote went blue over Epstein vs. tax cuts for the rich, Medicaid cuts, but I'll take it

They didn't seem to mind he was a convicted felon and sex offender otherwise but somehow Epstein is the moral issue he will be penalized for? Seems pretty weak logic to me. As long as we take back the House by a commanding margin and hopefully tip the Senate our way too, I don't care the reason. But please, DNC etc. --plan, prepare and fight hard for every vote because nothing driven by Trump is in the bag given his cult like followers

[lees1975]

8. They are going to lose at least that many over the horrible legislation they just passed.

That is, if people vote the way they are responding to the polls.