Steve Bannon Predicts ‘Big Fight’ Over Trump VP Pick

Donald Trump and Steve Bannon have apparently kissed and made up, with Bannon now again serving as a trusted advisor for the former president.

Bannon does not like Nikki Haley, and he has never hidden that dislike.

Trump, for all the silly nicknames he has given Haley, was quite fond of her in the past, making her the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations as well as meeting with Haley and giving her his blessing when she said she wanted to run for president.

Big Fight

I have always believed that Haley was a Trump operative who made a deal with Trump to enter the race to steal votes away from Governor DeSantis.

I backed off that premise for a few weeks when Haley started lobbing some bombs at Trump but fell back in line when it became clear that was a diversion, and Haley started to attack DeSantis again.

Haley seems like an ideal VP or Secretary of State choice for Trump, and rumors started to surface last week that Trump was asking his inner circle what they thought about Haley as a VP.

After those rumors surfaced, Donald Trump Jr. came out and said he would fight his father on that, and Steve Bannon trashed Haley during a recent rally appearance.

Now he believes he and Trump could have a “big fight” if Trump decides to push the issue again.

Bannon stated, “One of the fights we’re going to have, a big fight, it will take place in the spring, will be — they’re going to try to force Nikki on the ticket.

“They’ll say Trump needs a woman — Nikki — on the ticket. She balances things. And she can bring together that 15 percent of Never Trumpers in the Republican Party. We’re going to have to have that fight.”

Bannon then took the opportunity to throw some daggers at Haley, adding, “If Nikki Haley is in this administration, in any capacity, it will fail. Well, she’s a viper. She’s a viper.

“And once she gets in there, she’ll try to run it as prime minister. She’ll try to be Dick Cheney. … To Trump [she] will be just like Dick Cheney to Bush. That’s what she’ll try to do.”

What I also found interesting was pushback against Kevin McCarthy, who has sucked up to Trump from day one and who I believe resigned from the House to get embedded in the Trump campaign to land a spot as Trump’s Chief of Staff if Trump wins the election.

Bannon hinted that he does not like McCarthy either, stating, “Forget Republican or Democrat. If you’re thinking in those terms, you’re thinking of old politics.

“This is populist nationalism versus elite globalism. And if you see Republicans that are not in our camp, they’re, by and large, elite globalists, the Mitt Romneys of the world. The people in the Senate, Kevin McCarthy … neoliberal Nikki.”

Trump ultimately does what he wants, and with Trump having establishment Republicans in his inner circle, such as Senator Graham (R-S.C.), Kevin McCarthy, and possibly Nikki Haley, there is zero chance that Bannon and Trump are on speaking terms by the time election day rolls around.