In 2014, Steve Bannon and Breitbart News launched a crusade against the Republican establishment in the United States Senate. Embracing a “cut the head off the snake” philosophy, they targeted Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell by supporting his primary opponent Matt Bevin. In Tennessee, Sen. Alexander raised $6.9 million to Carr’s $1.3 million. This past weekend at the Value Voters Summit in Washington, Bannon declared that “money doesn’t matter anymore. You took Mitch McConnell’s money and you took it from his biggest asset to his biggest liability.

Source: Huffington Post October 18, 2017 02:31 UTC