Steve Bannon: Roy Moore Would’ve Won If McConnell and Others ‘Hadn’t Turned Against Him’

On Friday night, Steve Bannon appeared on MSNBC and, among many things, discussed the upcoming midterms and his recently poor track record when it comes to backing winning candidates.

Ari Melber asked the former White House chief strategist why should Republicans seek him for help since he hasn’t “backed winning candidates in the special elections thus far.” Bannon responded by saying he backed winning candidates “in the primary.”

“The Republican establishment in Alabama, Roy Moore specifically- I mean, Roy Moore would have won that election if [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and [Alabama Sen. Richard] Shelby and these others hadn’t turned against him,” Bannon told Melber. “So I’ve got a very good feel how to turn people out.”

“How could you blame Republicans in Washington for what happened in Alabama?” Melber shot back. “Didn’t the voters there make up their minds?”

“Well, Shelby came out on Sunday morning on national TV and said, ‘I’m not voting for Roy Moore. I’m doing a write-in.'” Bannon responded. “You know, McConnell was the guy who- it’s the Republican establishment that dumped all this stuff to The Washington Post that turned against him when their candidate got smoked in the primary. So it was the Republican establishment that said from Day One, ‘Not only are we not only going to support Roy Moore,’ they were already meeting to unseat Roy Moore and unseat him if he even won. So that was the Republican establishment turning against him. They were sending a signal. They would rather even lose control the Senate than allow disrupters in there.”

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.