NBC’s Welker: Bannon Is Going to Launch a Full Assault on GOP Establishment, Targeting Every Incumbent Except Cruz

‘They’re going to be rolling out these campaigns essentially in batches of three, starting this week’

CHUCK TODD: All right? That that took guts to do what she did. Very quickly, Kristen, I know you’ve got a little scoop here. Nick Ayers, or chief of Staff of the vice president talked about a purge of the party. We’ve heard Steve Bannon, the former advisor to the president talking about going after the establishment. How serious is this civil war in the Republican party, and is it going to play out in the Senate battlefield?

KRISTEN WELKER: It’s very serious. It is being described to me as someone close to Bannon, familiar with his plans, that this is going to be a full assault on the Republican establishment. Uh they’re going to be targeting basically every incumbent with the exception of Ted Cruz, that includes Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, Missouri, West Virginia, and Mississippi, and they’re going to be rolling out these campaigns essentially in batches of three, starting this week. So buckle up—

CHUCK TODD: All right. Missouri and Nebraska, those aren’t states you want to be messing around with and adding to the Democratic target map.

HUGH HEWITT: Count me as unimpressed with Steve Bannon’s threats. Because I think Alabama is a category of one and I believe that Marsha Blackburn is going to win handedly in Tennessee and I think this is, I do believe they intend to do it.

KRISTEN WELKER: Right

HUGH HEWITT: I think your reporting’s right. I just don’t think it’s going to work.

CHUCK TODD: Okay.

EUGENE ROBINSON: Uh-oh.

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