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Steve Bannon's scheduled speech to the California GOP has some Republicans nervous

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Republican Party's decision to invite right-wing provocateur and former presidential adviser Stephen K. Bannon to address its convention Friday created an unsettled concoction of excitement, dread and rubbernecking curiosity for GOP loyalists in the state.

The keynote speech in Anaheim is scheduled less than a week after Bannon, who runs the far-right website Breitbart News, called for "a season of war" on the GOP establishment. The threat was aimed squarely at Republicans in Washington whom Bannon considers disloyal to President Donald Trump and the conservative agenda.

Bannon will appear before a California GOP desperate to reverse its deteriorating influence in a state

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