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WEBVTT ANNIVERSARY OFTHAT VICTORY, HE SAYS IT IS UPTO PROMPT SUPPORTERS TO PUSH THEAGENDA FORWARD.>> I AM PLEASED AND PRIVILEGEDTO HONOR IT STEVE BANNON.MIKE: STEVE BANNON REIGNITEDCLAIMS OF VOTER FRAUD, SAYING HEBELIEVES PRESIDENT TRUMP BEATHILLARY CLINTON IN NEW HAMPSHIREIN THE GENERAL ELECTION.>> WHATEVER IT TAKES.I WILL PUT IT OUT.I THINK THE PEOPLE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE DESERVE TO UNDERSTANDWHAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY.MIKE: STEVE BANNON SPOKE TOABOUT 200 PEOPLE AT AFUNDRAISER, AT A CONSERVATIVEPOLITICAL GROUP.HE MADE A BRIEF REFERENCE TO ROW-- ROY MOORE.HE COMPARED THE REPORT TO THEACCESS HOLLYWOOD TAPE WHERE THEPRESIDENT WAS SAID TO HAVE MADECRUDE COMMENTS.>> THEY ARE THE SAME JEFF BEZOS,AMAZON, WASHINGTON POST THATDROPPED THE DIME THIS AFTERNOONON JUDGE MOORE.IS THAT A COINCIDENCE?MIKE: OUTSIDE, DOZENS LINED THESTREETS, PROTESTING HIS VISA --PROTESTING HIS VISIT.>> WE WANT TO SAY NO TO HISMESSAGE OF HATE.MIKE: DESPITE DEMOCRAT VICTORIESIN HIGH PROFILE RACES THIS WEEK,STEVE BANNON SAYS THE AGENDA CANSEE SUCCESS IN THE 2018 MIDTERMELECTIONS AND BEYOND.>> WE KNOW HOW TO WIN.WE HAVE TO PUT OUR DIFFERENCESASIDE AND UNDERSTAND WE WILL NOTGET EVERYTHING.MIKE: BRANDON SAYS HE DOES --STEVE BANNON SAYS HE PLANS TOSPEAK TO BILL GARDNER ABOUTILLEGAL VOTERS IN 2016.HE ALSO ATTACKED MITCH MCCONNELL

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Former top White House adviser Steve Bannon told a group of New Hampshire conservatives Thursday night that he’s convinced illegal voters cost President Donald Trump the state’s four electoral votes a year ago.He said he is so confident about it that he would put up the money to fund a state investigation.Bannon spoke for more than 45 minutes at a fundraising dinner hosted by the 603 Alliance on the first anniversary of Trump securing the presidency in the early morning hours of the day after election.The Brietbart chief executive cited figures that had been brought up in September by Kris Kobach, the vice chairman of Trump’s election fraud commission, to contend that Trump -- and not Hillary Clinton -- actually won New Hampshire.>> Raw video: Steve Bannon speaks to 603 AllianceBannon also dismissed on-the-record allegations that emerged Thursday afternoon that conservative Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore had inappropriate contact with teenage girls more than 30 years ago. Bannon called the report a product of the “opposition party” – the Washington Post.Bannon was brought to the state by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a Windham resident, who questioned the report in an interview with WMUR.The 603 Alliance is an issues group of self-described “constitutionalists and conservatives” formed several years ago with the goal of restoring “constitutional control at all levels of government” and uniting conservatives.Proceeds of the fundraiser were to be used for the group’s “Initiative '18” project -- a plan to identify, recruit, mentor and help “constitutional conservative candidates” to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2018.About 200 people attended the event at the Executive Court in Manchester. About 120 protesters organized by Granite State Progress, the New Hampshire Young Democrats, Seasoast Resistance and other liberal groups gathered outside, across the road from the facility. Bannon fondly recounted milestones of the 2016 general election campaign. He also looked back further, to an April 2014 summit with future presidential candidates at the same Executive Court, organized by Lewandowski in his former role as a leader of the issues group Americans for Prosperity. Bannon said that when he witnessed Trump's remarks at the 2014 event, and the crowd reaction, "Right then I knew that Trump could run the whole table. He talked in a different way."On the voting issue, Bannon said Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity “has looked into this situation" of same-day voting in New Hampshire. “There were 6,540 same-day registers here that had to get a (New Hampshire) drivers license by Jan. 7, 2017," Bannon said. "The election integrity commission, on Aug. 30 -- 10 months afterwards -- said only 1,014 of the 6,540 had actually obtained a New Hampshire drivers’ license, and 5,526 individuals never obtained anything.”“There’s another 5,313 that we don’t know where they are, and what they did.”Bannon said that if one assumes that one-third of those voters were college student who were legally entitled to vote in the state, “You’ve still got 3,600 votes that really haven’t been accounted for."Although Clinton won the state by 2,700 votes, “I believe strongly, and I’m prepared to put my money where my mouth is, that we won the state of New Hampshire,” Bannon said.He said his message to Secretary of State William Garner, the state's top election official and a member of the Trump commission, is, “Whatever it takes, whatever amount of money it takes – and I’ll put it up – we want to find out. I think the people of New Hampshire deserve to understand what happened that day.”Responding to the claims Thursday night, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley said Bannon "insulted the voters who, just two days earlier, rejected his dangerous agenda in spades. "Those who legitimize Bannon, the alt-right’s loudest mouthpiece, are embarrassing New Hampshire."Bannon for the first time addressed the allegations against Moore, whom he supported in a Republican U.S. Senate primary in Alabama over a more mainstream candidate backed by Trump, Luther Strange.Bannon compared the allegations leveled by the women in the Washington Post story to the release of the Access Hollywood tape last year, in which Trump made degrading comments about women.“It’s interesting. The Bezos Amazon Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump is the same Bezos Amazon Washington Post that dropped the time this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore,” Bannon said, referring Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper.“Now is that a coincidence? That’s what I mean when I say ‘opposition party,’” he said. "It’s purely the apparatus of the Democratic Party. They don’t make any bones about it.”"It’s not a fair and free media anymore,” he said.Bannon said his criticism of the mainstream Republicans on Capitol Hill, especially Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, seems to be working.“Ever since we put the whip hand to him, I notice they’re working six days a week, I notice they passed a budget, I notice he said he’s going to cancel Thanksgiving if they’ve got to work through it. I notice he’s coming out with a tax plan tomorrow.”“He’s working double time. You’ve got to keep the hammer on these folks every day,” Bannon said. “The focus here has got to be here on winning,” Bannon said. “We know how to win. We just have to put our mind to it.”“What’s going to win is very simple. Authentic candidates like Donald Trump. Big, actionable ideas like build the wall, drain the swamp. And then grassroots, using digital technology to go door-to-door.”“The responsibility is on your shoulders,” he told the conservatives. “We need to have folks like you hold these people accountable every day of the week.”Lewandowski earlier told WMUR that Bannon has been traveling throughout the country "reiterating the message of the Trump administration, which is to drain the swamp.”“That’s what Steve talked about when he was on the campaign. That’s what he talked about when he was in the White House. That’s what Steve is talking about on the outside.”“New Hampshire is such an important place,” Lewandowski said. He said that with both of the state’s U.S. House seats up for grabs in 2018, “Bringing the Trump voter out, like you see here tonight, is important toward building toward the future.”“What Steve has been very, very good at doing is holding people accountable,” Lewandowski said. “He recently called for Mitch McConnell to resign because (Bannon) is unafraid to speak the truth and hold people accountable.”Lewandowski also addressed the allegations against Moore."The left will say and do anything to take down conservative candidates," Lewandowski said. "Roy Moore has run for office in Alabama at least six or eight times and these issue had never come up, which is a little amazing to me for a person who has been the public eye for 40 years. So let's see what the truth is. It's out there somewhere and I hope we get to it quickly."Former state Rep. Steve Stepanek, a co-chairman of Trump's 2016 New Hampshire campaign, said Bannon’s appearance punctuated the importance of the Granite State to the conservative movement.“We’re working very hard to put together a strong grassroots conservative movement here in New Hampshire,” Stepanek said. “And it’s an organized grassroots conservative movement and it starts here.“It shows me, with Steve Bannon coming here, how important this is to the president’s team. Going forward, I think we’re going to have a very successful 2018 here in New Hampshire,” Stepanek said. Jack Kimball, a former chair of the state Republican Party and a leader of the 603 Alliance, said that since leaving the White House, Bannon "has ramped up his fight on behalf of President Trump, which is great."