Bannon: GOP struggling to hold Senate because it didn’t pass SAVE America Act

Steve Bannon said Republicans risk losing the Senate because they failed to pass the SAVE America Act.

The influential far-right commentator and former top aide to President Donald Trump faulted Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) for not pushing hard enough to pass the massive voter suppression bill that advocates have warned would disenfranchise millions of voters.

“I also think we have an urgency problem, that people are saying that ‘Hey, we had control of the Senate, we did nothing with it,’” Bannon told CBS in an interview that aired Sunday.

“To not even push the SAVE America Act, which was absolutely essential, I think, to running this election fairly … I think shows how weak the Senate was in pushing President Trump’s policies,” Bannon continued. 

“It was such a high priority for the MAGA movement and the MAGA base and Republicans overall,” Bannon said.

Thune has repeatedly said there were not enough votes to pass the bill in the face of a certain Democratic filibuster. He refused to nix or sideline the Senate filibuster to appease Trump.

Most polling has suggested Americans are divided on the SAVE America Act, with Republicans strongly supporting it and Democrats ardently opposed.

The bill sought to enact a slew of voting restrictions, including documentary proof of citizenship for registration, photo identification to vote and a near-complete ban on mail voting.

Bannon also celebrated the “good job” Republicans have done redistricting, admitting that the midterms would be far from competitive without Trump’s directives to redraw maps across the nation. 

The redistricting war has also left one in 10 Americans in different House districts.