Republican Rep. Peter King (R-NY) wants to see his party throw far-right strategist and Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon out into the cold.

During a CNN interview with Chris Cuomo, King explained that it isn’t a political issue, rather it’s a moral issue.

“This guy does not belong on the national stage,” King said. “He looks like some drunk that wandered on to the national stage. I consider myself a conservative Republican. I consider myself an Irish Catholic, and he parades himself out there with his weird alt-right views. And to me it’s demeaning the whole government and political process. This summer I called on the president to fire him from the White House. And I think, last night, in Alabama — it wasn’t just a political statement it was a revulsion by people at his style, at his type of divisive views.”

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King went on to denounce Bannon’s positions on foreign policy and encouragement toward racial divisions.

“Last night’s election was a revulsion by the American people,” King concluded.

Cuomo was shocked, saying that he knows King likes to “knuckle up” from time to time. “But did you just call Steve Bannon a disheveled drunk?”

King explained to Cuomo that he said that Bannon only looks like a disheveled drunk.

The Wall Street Journal attacked Bannon in a Wednesday morning op-ed, saying he was “done.”

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Watch the full exchange below: