Trump confidant and former chief strategist Steve Bannon says Kamala Harris’ bid for president is doomed because of her record in office and her inability to act on Donald Trump’s criminal justice reform.
That means he is losing the support of some of the key voter groups who will decide the election, he tells DailyMail.com.
He submitted his statement from the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he is in the final days of a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
And he said he should have already been released under Trump legislation that reduced sentences for nonviolent offenders.
‘The “Queen of Mass Incarceration,” Kamala Harris, will lose her bid for president on Nov. 5 because black and Hispanic men rejected her candidacy and refused to vote for her because she failed to implement the First Step Act. President Trump’. said.
“Tens of thousands of black and Hispanic men should now be back with their families or follow a detailed path for when they will be released from prison.”
Trump ally Steve Bannon is nearing the end of a four-month prison sentence. He is seen here speaking outside the Danbury Correctional Institution in July.
Like other Democrats, then-Senator Harris voted for the First Step Act, which shortened prison sentences for nonviolent offenders and allowed the early release of some inmates.
It was the first criminal justice reform in decades and was seen as a key step in reducing racial disparities in sentencing.
Black criminals made up the vast majority of people receiving reductions.
However, there have been frequent reports that the measures have not been properly implemented, and prisoner groups say thousands of people have been kept locked up far longer than they should have been.
Bannon said the blame lay with Harris.
“Harris played politics with people’s lives and now she will pay for her arrogance; black and Hispanic men hate her and will never vote for her,” he said.
‘It is impossible for her to win Pennsylvania, Michigan or Georgia without this critical vote. The Harris Bureau of Prisons is keeping me incarcerated 10 days longer than legal due to the same lack of implementation of the FSA.’
In a court filing, he says he has accumulated 10 days of First Step Act credits, meaning he should have been released to home release on Saturday.
“There is no reason for Mr. Bannon to remain in prison despite having obtained these credits,” his lawyers say. “The Court should grant Mr. Bannon’s motion and order his immediate release.”
Kamala Harris signed Trump’s First Step Act as a senator, but the Biden-Harris administration has been accused of failing to properly implement it
Bannon was Trump’s chief White House strategist before losing a power struggle with other advisers to the president.
Harris has tried to chart a careful course on law and order. She has been accused of being soft on crime as a “progressive prosecutor” in California.
At the same time, Trump has made surprising gains among black and Hispanic voters during the campaign.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Monday found that Harris’ overall lead had narrowed to just one point over Trump.
But since the last poll was conducted seven weeks ago, he has lost ground among black voters and among Latino voters, who now support Trump at 49 to 38 percent.
His overall lead among black voters is now 55 points, well below what Democratic candidates typically do, even allowing for a nine-point margin of error.
DailyMail.com/JL Partners election modeling showed Trump opened his biggest lead yet over Harris on Monday.
It shows that it now wins in 65.9 percent of simulations when the algorithm analyzes all possible combinations of data.
This is a big jump from Friday, when the model was last run. It then won in 61.4 percent of the simulations.
With Election Day just two weeks away, this suggests the vice president is running out of time.
Trump spent the weekend in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, serving French fries to McDonald’s customers and attending a Pittsburgh Steelers game.
On Monday, he flew to Asheville, North Carolina, to see with his own eyes the city devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Harris was in Philadelphia on Monday with Republican Liz Cheney, appealing to disaffected conservative voters.