Donald Trump Allies Aim for Five Decades of MAGA Controlling Government
(L) Laura Ingraham attends Fox News' Super Tuesday 2024 primary election coverage at Fox News Channel Studios on March 05, 2024 in New York City. On Thursday, she predicted that Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) coalition could be "in power for 50 years." (R) Former White House chief strategist for the Trump Administration Steve Bannon speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on March 03, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. He has previously said "MAGA will govern for 50 years."
Key Donald Trump media allies Fox News host Laura Ingraham and popular right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon are aiming for the former president's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement to take power and control the government for 50 years.
Amid the 2024 election, Trump and President Joe Biden face a 2020 rematch, with FiveThirtyEight's latest national poll aggregator showing the former president leading Biden by 1.1 points as of Saturday morning.
On Fox News' The Ingraham Angle on Thursday night, Ingraham listed everything she believes "Trump was right" about, including the economy, courts, the southern border, China, and U.S. trade.
Ingraham also likened Trump to former President Andrew Jackson, who ran for president three times and won twice in the late 1820s and late 1830s, with historians referring to that era as the "Age of Jackson." She suggested that if Trump wins his third campaign, it would usher in the "Age of Trump."
"If he picks a strong VP and we have every reason to believe he will, and if this new coalition becomes a governing coalition, well it can be in power for 50 years. It could end up changing the world...saving America," she said.
On Friday, Bannon, who served as the White House chief strategist under the Trump administration, on Gettr posted a Mediaite article recounting Ingraham's show and wrote, "It's Happening."
Newsweek reached out to Ingraham and Trump's spokesperson via email on Saturday. Newsweek has also reached out to Bannon via phone on Saturday.
The former president has not yet selected a running mate and is expected to reveal his pick at the Republican National Convention in July, which will take place just four days after he receives his sentencing from his criminal hush money trial.
Trump was found guilty late last month on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels alleges she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, which he denies. The former president has maintained his innocence, claiming the case was politically motivated against him. His legal team intends to appeal the verdict.
It's rumored that Representatives Byron Donalds of Florida and Elise Stefanik of New York as well as Senators J.D. Vance of Ohio, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Marco Rubio of Florida are all in consideration for Trump's vice presidential pick.
Meanwhile, Bannon has previously expressed a similar sentiment about MAGA ruling for decades. In 2021, he said on his War Room podcast that he hopes that pro-Trump Republican rule will "reign for 100 years."
The Lincoln Project, a political action committee (PAC) founded by Republicans who do not support Trump, posted a video of Bannon on X, formerly Twitter, in February. The video shows Bannon saying, "MAGA will govern for 50 years. President Trump will be the single most important president since Abraham Lincoln. So et's make it happen." In its post, The Lincoln Project wrote, "It's up to us to make sure this never happens."
Bannon has been ordered to report to prison by July 1 after being convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 due to failing to comply with a subpoena in the investigation of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. He was sentenced to four months.
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