"This is the best guy we're ever going to get," he said, predicting that Republicans in November would win 340 electoral college votes in the presidential race, 53 or 54 Senate seats, and half a dozen House seats.

Bannon gave an interview while preparing to surrender to authorities and enter a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Conn. On Friday, the Supreme Court rejected his last petition to delay his sentence, after a Washington appeals court denied similar requests. He was convicted in July 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.