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Kelli Ward and Steve Bannon Echoed Trump's Vision at Scottsdale Fundraiser

By Jim Louvau

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 9:10 a.m.

Jim Louvau Steve Banno is all about the wall, and not the Pink Floyd classic record. 1/25

Jim Louvau The crowd was super-excited. 2/25

Jim Louvau Dr. Kelli Ward only spoke for about 10 minutes. 3/25

Jim Louvau He digs the black guns. 4/25

Jim Louvau Halloween isn't for another couple of weeks. 5/25

Jim Louvau Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham served as Ward's other hype-master before she took the stage. 6/25

Jim Louvau Republican Senate hopeful Dr. Kelli Ward. 7/25

Jim Louvau He's all in. 8/25

Jim Louvau The crowd. 9/25

Jim Louvau A large part of the crowd was made up of female senior citizens. 10/25

Jim Louvau Best shirt in the house. 11/25

Jim Louvau Steve Bannon speaks. 12/25

Jim Louvau Steve Bannon got the Ward supporters all fired up. 13/25

Jim Louvau Laura Ingraham speaks. 14/25

Jim Louvau Like Ward, Bannon was very complimentary of Trump. 15/25

Jim Louvau Bannon, Ward's henchman for the evening, began by taking digs at the establishment. 16/25

Jim Louvau Ingraham followed Trump's lead and berated Republican Senator Jeff Flake for being too weak and not conservative enough. 17/25

Jim Louvau Buttons. 18/25

Jim Louvau Bold statement. 19/25

Jim Louvau He told the crowd that the "globalist elites" who were ruling from their ivory towers were actually afraid of the voter base Ward was creating. 20/25

Jim Louvau The calm before the storm. 21/25

Jim Louvau Attendees file into the fundraiser. 22/25

Jim Louvau J.D. Hayworth shared his Republican feelings. 23/25

Jim Louvau She didn't even take her hat off. 24/25

Jim Louvau The crowd was eager to hear Bannon speak. 25/25

Kelli Ward and Steve Bannon Echoed Trump's Vision at Scottsdale Fundraiser

Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, joined Republican Senate hopeful Dr. Kelli Ward at a campaign kickoff fundraiser Tuesday night in Scottsdale. So it's probably not a coincidence that almost every sentence could have been a Breitbart headline. Photos by Jim Louvau.

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