Trump confidante and former chief strategist Steve Bannon says Kamala Harris’ run for president is doomed by her record and failure to take action on Donald Trump’s criminal justice reform.
That means she will lose the support of some of the key voter groups that will decide the election, he tells DailyMail.com.
He sent his statement from 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 been released by now under Trump legislation that reduced sentences for non-violent offenders.
“The ‘Queen of Mass Incarceration,’ Kamala Harris, will lose her bid for the presidency on November 5 as Black and Hispanic men reject her candidacy and refuse to vote for her because she has failed to pass the President’s First Step Act Trump to implement,” he said.
“Tens of thousands of black and Hispanic men should now be back with their families or on a detailed track of when they leave prison.”
Trump ally Steve Bannon is nearing the end of a four-month prison sentence. We see him speaking outside Danbury Correctional Institution here in July
Like other Democrats, then-Senator Harris voted for the First Step Act, which shortened prison sentences for non-violent offenders and allowed early release for some prisoners.
It was the first criminal justice reform in decades and was seen as an important step in narrowing racial disparities in sentencing.
Black offenders made up the vast majority of people who received discounts.
However, there are regular reports that the measures have not been properly implemented. Prisoner groups say thousands of people have been locked up far longer than necessary.
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 detest her and will never vote for her,” he said.
“It’s impossible for her to win Pennsylvania, Michigan or Georgia without this critical vote. Harris’s Bureau of Prisons is holding me ten days longer than the law allows for the same inability to enter the FSA.”
In a court filing, he says he has accrued 10 days’ worth of First Step Act credits, meaning he should have been released to home confinement on Saturday.
“There is no reason for Mr. Bannon to remain in prison despite having earned those credits,” his lawyers say. “The Court should grant Mr. Bannon’s motion and immediately release him.”
Kamala Harris signed Trump’s First Step Act as a senator, but the Biden-Harris administration is accused of failing to properly implement it
Bannon was Trump’s chief strategist in the White House before losing a power struggle with other advisers to the president
Harris has tried to chart a careful course on law and order. She is accused of being soft on crime as a “progressive prosecutor” in California.
At the same time, Trump has made notable gains among black and Hispanic voters during the campaign.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed Harris’ overall lead had fallen to just one point over Trump.
But since the poll was last conducted seven weeks ago, it had lost ground among black voters and among Latino voters, who now support Trump by 49 percent to 38 percent.
Her overall lead among black voters now stands at 55 points, well below where Democratic candidates normally vote, even with a nine-point margin of error.
The DailyMail.com/JL Partners election model showed Trump opening his widest lead over Harris on Monday.
This shows that he now wins in 65.9 percent of the simulations when the algorithm goes through all possible combinations of data.
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That’s a big jump from Friday, when the model was last run. He then won in 61.4 percent of the simulations.
With just two weeks to go until Election Day, this suggests time is running out for the vice president.
Trump spent the weekend in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, serving fries to McDonald’s customers and attending a Pittsburgh Steelers game.
On Monday, he flew to Asheville, North Carolina, to see the city ravaged by Hurricane Helene for himself.
Harris was in Philadelphia on Monday with Republican Liz Cheney, where he appealed to disaffected conservative voters.