{"id":636884,"date":"2018-10-19T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=636884"},"modified":"2018-10-19T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:47:26","slug":"steve-bannon-calls-gop-senate-candidate-mick-rich-a-real-populist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/steve-bannon-calls-gop-senate-candidate-mick-rich-a-real-populist\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bannon calls GOP Senate candidate Mick Rich a \u2018real populist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_636889\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-636889\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve-771x553.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Bannon\" width=\"771\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve-771x553.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve-336x241.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve-1170x839.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Bannon-Steve.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Andy Lyman \/ New Mexico Political Report<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Bannon, speaking Thursday in Roswell.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ROSWELL \u2014 Former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon spoke to a crowd of about 150 people in Roswell on Thursday night about his new film Trump@War. He also took the opportunity to praise New Mexico&#8217;s Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mick Rich, calling him a \u201creal populist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bannon said his film was not intended to change minds about Trump, but instead to rally Trump supporters ahead of November\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a midterm,\u201d Bannon told the crowd. \u201cThis is Trump\u2019s first re-elect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rich praised Trump and the controversial strategist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I looked at this race, I looked at President Trump,\u201d Rich said. \u201cI looked at him and said, \u2018Man this is the guy that sets the standard.\u2019 This is a guy who says \u2018I stand up for the working guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2018\/10\/19\/steve-bannon-mick-rich-is-a-real-populist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico Political Report<\/a>,\u00a0a nonprofit news organization\u00a0focused on promoting a greater public understanding of politics and policy in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In recent interviews Bannon has said November\u2019s election will have a large impact on Trump\u2019s chances of getting reelected in 2020. He also celebrated \u201ceconomic nationalism\u201d and said it\u2019s important for the future of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic nationalism is about putting America first,\u201d Bannon told the crowd of Trump supporters, peppered with some curious observers. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter, your race, your ethnicity, your religion, your gender, your sexual reference, none of that matters. Only one thing [matters]: [that] you\u2019re an American citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also told Trump supporters they must win in the midterm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to say the entire burden is on your shoulders, but the entire burden is on your shoulders,\u201d Bannon said.<\/p>\n<p>The former financial trader and movie producer \u2014 whose net worth lands somewhere between $9 and $48 million, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maddieberg\/2017\/04\/01\/steve-bannon-worth-as-much-as-48-million-blockbuster-filings-reveal\/#6c4f47181f59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 dismissed \u201cglobal elites\u201d and said he preferred working class people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to choose a team, I want to be on your side of the football,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon left promptly after his speech and before his movie played.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Outside the event, the parking lot was quiet and missing an expected presence of protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Opting not to engage or even acknowledge Bannon\u2019s presence in the state, the Chaves County Democratic Party held a business meeting just down the road from where Bannon\u2019s movie was being showcased.<\/p>\n<p>Chaves County Democratic Party Chair Paul Romero told a room full of about 50 party members that he didn\u2019t think Bannon was worth the party\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we could protest,\u201d Romero said. \u201cBut, for this moment on this day I just felt we could take a different approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Romero said, he encouraged other members to make phone calls and knock on doors in support of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Bannon is old news,\u201d Romero said. &#8220;He\u2019s old, divisive news and New Mexico is better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Rich praised President Donald Trump and the controversial strategist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2238,3307,3651,3711,267,116],"class_list":["post-636884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-mick-rich","tag-steve-bannon","tag-u-s-senate","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636891,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636884\/revisions\/636891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}