Steve Bannon is high on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, predicting that she has a brighter future ahead as a member of the Trump administration.
Speaking with Politico, Bannon said her time as President Donald J. Trump’s official spokesperson is limited and that she is likely to be offered a major cabinet position in the days ahead.
“After she’s spokesman for a year or two, I think she’s going to get a Cabinet position. Maybe chief of staff,” Bannon prognosticated.
Leavitt is reportedly open to the idea, a person familiar with her thinking told POLITICO Magazine, but has concerns about whether she is qualified for the position.
“Tough as boot leather,” Steve Bannon, who was an early booster, hosting her on his War Room show nearly a dozen times throughout the primary, told me. “I used to call her a flinty Yankee.” Leavitt had learned how to cultivate Bannon and his audience from Stefanik, as her boss… pic.twitter.com/ynT2kFn2vq
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Bannon said Leavitt was “tough as boot leather,” but saw her as “such a longshot” when she ran for Congress in New Hampshire in 2022 — he had her as a guest multiple times on War Room.
“The audience fell in love with her,” he said. “They kind of adopted her as a cause because she was so young.”
“Here’s the thing: She wasn’t perfect,” Bannon said. “She had a lot of rough edges. But she learned the lesson Andrew Breitbart did when he first started. He would do the most obscure talk radio in Montana and Wyoming — just do reps.”
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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