Populists Scoring 30% in EU Vote Would Boost Trump, Bannon Says

If populists obtain more than 30% of the vote in this month’s elections for the European Parliament, it will give a boost to Donald Trump’s re-election effort, said Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to the U.S. president, in an interview with daily newspaper Le Parisien.

The vote’s outcome will be particularly crucial in France, where the parliamentary elections are essentially a referendum on President Emmanuel Macron and “his vision for Europe,” Bannon said in the interview from Paris. Bannon, who has spent recent months in Europe trying to build a nationalist coalition, describes himself as an informal adviser to populist parties.