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Steve Bannon: “We are doing the most systematic polling that's ever been…”

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Steve Bannon | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union

Published November 17, 2018 | Video Starts at 39:50

They're going to select their own candidates, run their own campaigns. Right. Hopefully. And by the way, if it turns out it's legal, and I'm still trying to find out, We are doing the most systematic polling that's ever been done for the European Parliamentary elections next May. The intensity in these elections, which used to be on page five in 2014 in the Times, is going to be on page one by March and April. (39:50–39:56)

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