Former White House strategist Steve Bannon said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) doesn't have the guts to run for reelection, echoing President Donald Trump's insult of the senator. | Craig Ruttle/AP Photo Bannon: Corker should resign immediately

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said Monday that Sen. Bob Corker should “resign immediately” if the Tennessee Republican has “any honor or decency.”

"Corker, [Mitch] McConnell and the entire establishment, globalist clique have to go," Bannon told Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night.


Allies of President Donald Trump on Monday fired back at Corker, who engaged in a tit-for-tat Twitter fracas with Trump on Sunday. Later that evening, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lambasted the president in an interview with the New York Times, saying Trump is risking World War III and that his frequent Twitter outbursts have already harmed U.S. relations.

Bannon said he agreed with Jason Miller, a former top aide to Trump's presidential campaign, who called for Corker to resign immediately so that Gov. Bill Haslam could him with Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who recently announced her campaign to replace the retiring Corker.

A self-described "street fighter," Bannon, who has returned to Breitbart News, echoed Trump in saying that Corker "does not have the guts" to run for reelection given that he could potentially lose a primary race against someone like Blackburn.

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Hannity and Bannon also kibitzed over what they said are disloyal Senate Republicans who have picked fights with the president, but who have failed to pass Trump's agenda. Bannon said that he is trying to recruit primary challengers for every Senate Republican up in 2018, minus Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“I’m not supporting any Republican incumbent that hasn’t gotten their job done, not one Steve, I refuse," Hannity said. "They have betrayed the American people. They have betrayed their promises."