Steve Bannon Gives Ominous Warning Linking Ice In Airports To What Could Happen In Midterm Elections

MAGA media characteristic Steve Bannon has fixed an ominous warning, linking nan caller beingness of Immigration and Customs Enforcement astatine airports to what could hap successful nan midterm elections.

Bannon, who served arsenic White House main strategist during President Donald Trump’s first term, has been pushing for ICE agents to show up astatine nan polls successful November.

“We’re not going to beryllium present and let you to bargain nan state again. And you tin whine and outcry and propulsion your toys retired of nan pram each you want, but we will ne'er again let an predetermination to beryllium stolen,” Bannon, who has falsely claimed nan 2020 predetermination was rigged against Trump, said connected his War Room podcast successful February.

Bannon called Trump’s deployment of ICE to bustling airports amid a partial authorities shutdown that has caused recreation delays a “test run” for nan midterms.

“We tin usage what’s happening pinch these ICE helping retired astatine nan airports,” Bannon said successful a clip from his podcast that was circulating Monday. He told MAGA fig Mike Davis, “We tin usage this arsenic a trial run, arsenic a trial lawsuit to really cleanable ICE’s engagement successful nan 2026 midterm elections, sir?”

Davis replied: “Yeah, I deliberation we should person ICE agents astatine nan polling places because if you’re an forbidden alien, you can’t vote.”

“They’re trained to, hold for it, cheque IDs. That’s why it’s cleanable training for nan autumn of 2026,” Bannon said, calling it “another 5D chess move from President Trump.”

“We’re tired of having elections stolen, truthful ICE is gonna beryllium location successful nan autumn of ‘26, conscionable for illustration they are successful nan airports today,” nan MAGA podcast big said.

When antecedently asked astir Bannon’s push to person ICE astatine nan polls during nan midterm elections, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, “That's not thing I've ever heard nan president consider. No."

"I can't guarantee that an ICE supplier won't beryllium astir a polling location successful November. I mean, that's frankly a very silly hypothetical question. But what I tin show you is I haven't heard nan president talk immoderate general plans to put ICE extracurricular of polling locations,” Leavitt said.

Trump warned connected Truth Social Saturday that if Democratic lawmakers didn’t work together to a woody to money nan Department of Homeland Security, which nan TSA falls under, he would “move our superb and patriotic ICE Agents to nan Airports wherever they will do Security for illustration nary 1 has ever seen before.”

ICE agents were seen by the Associated Press operating terminals astatine Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International, John F. Kennedy International successful New York, Newark Liberty International successful New Jersey, George Bush Intercontinental successful Houston and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International connected Monday.

Democrats person been refusing to money nan Homeland Security Department for much than a period successful a conflict to betterment ICE and Customs and Border Protection pursuing the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by national migration agents successful Minneapolis successful January.