What Next: Steve Bannon’s “War Room” is Mobilizing

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Listeners of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast have mobilized to take over the GOP from the ground up. Convinced the 2020 election was stolen, many far-right Republicans are moving to run elections themselves as precinct officers. Guest: Isaac Arnsdorf, national politics reporter for ProPublica. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2	Back when Steve Bannon worked in the White House,
0:36.9	he had this whiteboard in his office.
0:39.2	It contained an exhaustive list of the things he hoped President Trump would accomplish.
0:44.9	Everything from repealing Obamacare to canceling federal funding for sanctuary cities.
0:50.7	If you listen to Steve Bannon now, though, you get the sense he's still got a list like this.
0:55.6	Just waiting to be checked off. Bannon calls his podcast The War Room
1:01.0	as if he was still hunkered down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1:05.3	But that's not the most important thing to know about a show.
1:09.2	The important thing to know about Steve Bannon's podcast is it is one of the most popular
1:15.1	consistently one of the most popular shows on Apple's platform.
1:20.3	It has tens of millions of downloads.
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