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Bayard

(30,646 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:49 AM 13 hrs ago

Steve Bannon calls for ICE and others to be at "every precinct" for the midterms

Steve Bannon calls for ICE and others to be at “every precinct” for the midterms: “If you’re armed or not, that depends upon what your state laws are”

While speaking at the “Fraud-Fighter Summit,” War Room host and former Trump official Steve Bannon urged attendees to “be at every precinct” during the upcoming midterm elections, suggesting people could even come armed, “depend[ing] upon what your state laws are.”

At the summit, Bannon also said Immigration and Customs Enforcement “has to be there and has to be there to back you up” to prevent supposed election fraud, mirroring calls from Bannon and right-wing media for ICE to be present at polling locations during the midterms. Bannon said in February, “You’re damn right we're going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” and in March podcaster Benny Johnson asked, “Can we deploy ICE to every voting booth in America? Would that fix the fraud? Of course, it would.”

STEVE BANNON: What you decide coming out of the summit tomorrow — because we're essentially 100 days away from early voting. What you decide is the plan of action. Right? In these eight to 12 congressional precincts, congressional districts we have to win — we probably have to win eight of them. What happens there in a handful of states, including Texas, is what’s going to decide whether we're still in power.

And what they intend to do is to take the House. That's why what you decide over the next 24, 48 hours, in the action plan that you come up with as the leaders of this part of the movement, which is where the rubber meets the road, at these precincts and watching this vote this November. That is what Rachel Maddow's afraid of. That's why they, at the beginning of your two-day summit, they play that last night to intimidate you, to say, Hey. We’ve war-gamed this. We know you’re vigilantes. We know you're going to come armed, and President Trump’s going to do this, this, and this.

Listen. We need to be at every precinct. If you’re armed or not, that depends upon what your state laws are. But I will tell you, ICE has to be there and has to be there to back you up, or we're going to have a situation exactly what happened in LA where they sat there and stole the election from Spencer Pratt, who I believe finished first, but no worse than a close second, and should be on the ballot in November. So these people are arrogant. And right now, they're doing very sophisticated war-gaming, very sophisticated, let’s say, association with intelligence agencies, and, I think, rogue law enforcement agencies.

https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-calls-ice-and-others-be-every-precinct-midterms-if-youre-armed-or-not

Video at link, if you can stomach it.

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Steve Bannon calls for ICE and others to be at "every precinct" for the midterms (Original Post) Bayard 13 hrs ago OP
Including the white, wealthy suburbs? Norrrm 13 hrs ago #1
Another fraudulent scumbag johnnyfins 13 hrs ago #2
And I call for Steve Bannon to serve the rest of his worthless life in prison! Initech 13 hrs ago #3
So maybe blue states National Guard need to be there too wnylib 13 hrs ago #4
...and I call for Steve Bannon to take a shower and wash his hair PCIntern 13 hrs ago #5
Isn't he that creepy associate of Jeffrey Epstein? Or have I just confused him with all of Donny's other pals? struggle4progress 13 hrs ago #6
In Grandma's lye soap! Jilly_in_VA 13 hrs ago #12
Will they be wearing their brown shirts? -misanthroptimist 13 hrs ago #7
Is HE dead yet? 2MuchNoise 13 hrs ago #8
Almost sounds like incitement. miyazaki 13 hrs ago #9
Boy, is he gonna be disappointed Fiendish Thingy 13 hrs ago #10
Between Harris, Travis, Bexar and Dallas Counties, there are probably about 1500 poll sites. LeftInTX 12 hrs ago #15
ICE Whip-poor-will 13 hrs ago #11
Can Bannon Count? ProfessorGAC 13 hrs ago #13
Oh you're good! I did an estimate for the most populated counties in Texas... LeftInTX 12 hrs ago #16
Stevie Two-Shirts... GiqueCee 12 hrs ago #14
How many mwmisses4289 12 hrs ago #17
Inciting insurrection again? kentuck 12 hrs ago #18
Bannon is in the Epstein Files purr-rat beauty 12 hrs ago #19
Anyone who says 'when the rubber meets the road' GenThePerservering 12 hrs ago #20
We know which precincts he means by "every" orthoclad 10 hrs ago #21
Fuck you Steve Bannon. milestogo 10 hrs ago #22
Which is why it's absolutely essential for them to squash vote-by-mail 0rganism 10 hrs ago #23
Quiet, Piggy. Talitha 8 hrs ago #24
I'm surprised Bannon's liver is still alive! madinmaryland 7 hrs ago #25
That human size pustule is still alive? Dave Bowman 7 hrs ago #26

Initech

(109,618 posts)
3. And I call for Steve Bannon to serve the rest of his worthless life in prison!
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 11:57 AM
13 hrs ago

Fuck you and fuck your ICE goons and fuck your absolutely worthless excuse of a president, Bannon!

PCIntern

(28,796 posts)
5. ...and I call for Steve Bannon to take a shower and wash his hair
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:00 PM
13 hrs ago

He is on a scale of 1 to 10, an “AZ”: an Absolute Zero.

struggle4progress

(127,158 posts)
6. Isn't he that creepy associate of Jeffrey Epstein? Or have I just confused him with all of Donny's other pals?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:01 PM
13 hrs ago

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to help Steve Bannon build a global populist movement
Feb 9, 2026
By Steve Contorno
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/politics/steve-bannon-jeffrey-epstein-global-populism

-misanthroptimist

(1,942 posts)
7. Will they be wearing their brown shirts?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:07 PM
13 hrs ago

Or perhaps they prefer to show up in their full tacticool gear, making believe that they are in danger?

miyazaki

(2,704 posts)
9. Almost sounds like incitement.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:09 PM
13 hrs ago

Maybe the FBI needs to pay this ex-con a visit.

I crack myself up.

Fiendish Thingy

(24,441 posts)
10. Boy, is he gonna be disappointed
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:20 PM
13 hrs ago

There are hundreds of thousands of precincts across the US, and simply not enough ICE agents.

In actual elections over the past year, 2024 Trump +20 districts have been swinging 15-30 points towards Dem candidates, in places like TX, FL and GA, destroying the myth that they only need to deploy ICE to certain “strategic” blue districts to disrupt elections and keep republicans in the majority in the house.

LeftInTX

(34,951 posts)
15. Between Harris, Travis, Bexar and Dallas Counties, there are probably about 1500 poll sites.
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:52 PM
12 hrs ago

There are 300 in Bexar County. I'm estimating Harris and Dallas will have 500 sites. But they could have more. I'm estimating 200 in Travis.

ProfessorGAC

(77,668 posts)
13. Can Bannon Count?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:36 PM
13 hrs ago

There are 117,000 polling places in the US.
ICE has 22,000 officers & agents.
Apparently Bannon can't understand that 117,000 >22,000.

GiqueCee

(5,045 posts)
14. Stevie Two-Shirts...
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 12:49 PM
12 hrs ago

... just runs his mouth to try and stay relevant.
TIme's up, Bannon, you worthless turd. No one with a functional brain gives a shit what you say, do, feel, or think. You. Are. IRRELEVANT! Just waddle back into the sewer that spawned you.

kentuck

(116,025 posts)
18. Inciting insurrection again?
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 01:05 PM
12 hrs ago

Armed nuts at the polling places? That should really bring out the voters!

purr-rat beauty

(1,633 posts)
19. Bannon is in the Epstein Files
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 01:15 PM
12 hrs ago

Fuck that gluttonous glob of putrid pus.

Who the fuck listens to such bile?

GenThePerservering

(4,074 posts)
20. Anyone who says 'when the rubber meets the road'
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 01:21 PM
12 hrs ago

like they mean it, has long since lost relevancy.

0rganism

(25,763 posts)
23. Which is why it's absolutely essential for them to squash vote-by-mail
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 03:04 PM
10 hrs ago

When voters showing up to the hastily-expanded same-day polling stations in heavily Democratic precincts of former-VBM states are pulled out of the line by ICE agents, that'll really slow everything down and intimidate brown people.

ICE doesn't have enough agents to cover "every precinct", but they can cover a whole lot of them and it's pretty easy to guess which ones will be prioritized.

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