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Steve Bannon and his guests are not happy the Republican midterm convention avoided mentioning mass deportations

Media Matters for America · Media Matters for America · last updated

On the first day of the inaugural GOP midterm convention, War Room host Steve Bannon expressed mock confusion that Department of Homeland Security officials and anti-immigration activists were not invited to speak. Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project and leader of the Mass Deportation Coalition, called the event “a mass deportation blackout” and claimed “the consultants have decided it’s not a winning issue for them.”