Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) predicted Republicans could face "a bloodbath in the midterms" after Democrats won key elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania.
During a Wednesday interview with Roy on the War Room podcast, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon blamed GOP candidates who did not "fully engage Donald Trump" in their campaigns.
"You're not going to get wiped like you got," Bannon insisted. "If you stiff-armed Trump and have a tele-town hall the night before, that's not good enough."
"And then in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, bro, what do you spend in time in Iowa? You just ended your political career last night," he continued. "As a native Virginian, you destroyed you, destroyed the Republican Party for a generation."
According to Bannon, Virginia Republicans nominated an "unmitigated Trump-hating disaster" when they picked Winsome Earle-Sears.
Roy said the election was a "wake-up call."
"If you don't lead and lead with a clear vision and a clear direction, you're going to get absolutely slaughtered," he explained. "That's what happened in Virginia... People are tired of not being able to afford housing. They're tired of not being able to afford groceries."
"We're running a campaign of weakness," Roy continued. "President Trump wants to lead. He wants to go on offense. And Republicans on Capitol Hill are just kind of messing around, going, well, we got this Big Beautiful Bill done. And now we're kind of done. And let's limp through into the midterms. We can't do that."
"If we sit back on defense and if we side with the moderates and if we undermine President Trump, then it will be a bloodbath in the midterms, and that will do nothing to advance the agenda for a free country."
Bannon was not hopeful as he ended the interview.
"Chip, the Commonwealth of Virginia has fallen," he said.
