Recently ousted White House aide Steve Bannon is, according to Politico, "plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents" and "is firing his opening shot in the Alabama Senate special election" primary, backing Roy Moore over the incumbent Sen. Luther Strange.
A new ad from the Bannon-affiliated Great America Alliance show how vicious the air war gets once Bannon is involved.
But then we see the most cutting footage: former Gov. Robert Bentley introducing Strange as his interim appointment to the Senate.
Why is that a big deal? Because Bentley was later forced out of office due to a sex scandal, and he introduces Bentley as being recommended by a hated figure among Trump loyalists: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Bentley is ID'd as "Disgraced Former Governor Robert Bentley." "I talked with Mitch McConnell," says Bentley, "and the first person that he actually mentioned was Luther Strange."
Even worse, Bentley adds that "Luther is not a stranger in Washington." Left unsaid by Bentley was that Strange was familiar in Washington because he was a lobbyist.
Complicating matters is while Strange is linked to McConnell, he is also endorsed by Trump, a fact Strange never tires of mentioning. The race is coming down to which endorsement do voters care about more: McConnell's endorsement of Strange, or Trump's.
A new ad from the Bannon-affiliated Great America Alliance show how vicious the air war gets once Bannon is involved.
Strange Tagged as a "Big Time Lobbyist"
"Big Time Lobbyist" starts as nearly all Republican ads do in the age of Trump: saying that Washington was "built on a swamp" and Strange as "part of that swamp."But then we see the most cutting footage: former Gov. Robert Bentley introducing Strange as his interim appointment to the Senate.
Why is that a big deal? Because Bentley was later forced out of office due to a sex scandal, and he introduces Bentley as being recommended by a hated figure among Trump loyalists: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Bentley is ID'd as "Disgraced Former Governor Robert Bentley." "I talked with Mitch McConnell," says Bentley, "and the first person that he actually mentioned was Luther Strange."
Even worse, Bentley adds that "Luther is not a stranger in Washington." Left unsaid by Bentley was that Strange was familiar in Washington because he was a lobbyist.
Strange Backed by McConnell ... and Trump
That gives Bannon's ad makers the opportunity to slap on the screen that Strange was a "big time lobbyist" who was "appointed by The Swamp ... in the pocket of Mitch McConnell [and] not getting anything done for Alabama."Complicating matters is while Strange is linked to McConnell, he is also endorsed by Trump, a fact Strange never tires of mentioning. The race is coming down to which endorsement do voters care about more: McConnell's endorsement of Strange, or Trump's.