Updated 10:58 a.m. | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he did not expect to lose any campaigns in 2018 because of fringe candidates who might have the backing of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon.

“We’re not going to lose any nominations to the kind of candidates that guy you were talking about endorsed,” McConnell said. “What he’s a specialist in is nominating people who lose.”

The Kentucky Republican declined to call Bannon by name in a Wednesday morning interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“This is the same element in the party that cost us a bunch of seats in 2010 and 2012. We changed our business model,” McConnell said. “We started winning primaries with people who can actually win in November, and that’s how we took the Senate in ’14, and that’s how we kept the Senate in ’16.”

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