Steve Bannon Blasts Republican Response to Bud Light Controversy
Steve Bannon has decried Republicans' seeming reversal on the Bud Light controversy on Saturday after reports emerged that the beer brand's parent company is a major GOP donor.Conservative pundits and figures have recently expressed outrage and called for boycotts after Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney for a sponsored post.
Despite the fact that the partnership only amounted to a single Instagram video promoting March Madness, the conservative backlash swiftly became outsized, with customers posting videos of themselves destroying cans of the popular light beer and some issuing bomb threats against facilities operated by the brand's parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev.The backlash appeared to recede somewhat when the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) deleted a fundraising initiative taking aim at the Bud Light situation.
According to a Sunday report from The Daily Beast, the influential group, which works to elect GOP candidates to the House of Representatives, shared and then quietly deleted a campaign using the controversy as a springboard for fundraising.
Those who donated would have received a custom beer can koozie featuring a transphobic joke at the expense of Bud Light."Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water," the group's original tweet read.While the NRCC has not confirmed why the campaign was taken down, as The Daily Beast reported, it is a notable factor that Anheuser-Busch is a significant donor to the group the Republican Party at large, giving nearly $500,000 to the NRCC during the 2022 election cycle.
