Donald Trump pulled his endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Mo Brooks this week, accusing the conservative congressman of going “woke” in politics, but the lawmaker insists he is still the best candidate on the ballot.
Back in August, Rep. Brooks was leading the field in the race for a U.S. Senate seat by 23 points, with 40% of Alabamians saying they’d vote for him. Now the congressman is polling in third place, and Trump this week claimed the huge drop came after Brooks suggested voters need to move on from the 2020 election.
On Wednesday, Trump announced he was yanking his endorsement – and it would go to another Republican in the race – and the former president blamed Brooks’ drop in polls on newly hired campaign staff who convinced him to stop talking about the 2020 election.
Brooks has worn Trump’s endorsement like a badge during the GOP primary, where he has referred to himself as “MAGO Mo” on the campaign trail, but has was booed at a campaign stop last summer after he suggested voters need to “move forward” from 2020.
“I have not changed,” Brooks said in a statement this week. “I am the only proven ‘America First’ candidate in this Senate race.”
The GOP primary, which will be May 24, includes Brooks, Katie Britt, and Mike Durant.
Britt is the former chief of staff for Sen. Richard Shelby, whose retirement set up the current race.
Durant, a businessman, is the former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who was shot down and held prisoner in Somalia in 1993.
After the former president pulled his endorsement, Rep. Brooks did not hit back at Trump directly but said Trump had been “manipulated” by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
McConnell, the powerful and shrewd lawmaker, was no fan of swamp-draining Donald Trump.
Reacting to the political fight, talk show host Richard Randall tells AFN it is time for Republican voters to look ahead to 2024. That is difficult to do because Donald Trump is still supported by most Republican voters, he says, but Florida’s governor deserves a close look by those same voters as 2024 approaches.
“Ron DeSantis is all of the right stuff,” Randall says, “without some of the baggage that President Trump has.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“Britt is the former chief of staff for Sen. Richard Shelby”. Britt worked for RINO Shelby, so who the heck wants her? Give me Mike Durant, a former helicopter pilot. Since Durant was in the military and since he is running as a Republican, I believe we should take a chance on Durant, as opposed to RINOS like Brooks and Britt.
JUST because Durrant is a military vet, does NOT MEAN he’s a conservative… Just look at Censhaw.. HE is a vet, from texas. BUT IN NO WAY DO I SEE this cretin, as a conservative..
I said to take a chance on Durant. The other two options of Britt and Brooks are not an option, as they are RINOS!!!!
We shall see…
MAGO Mo or Maggot Moe,,, all that is left to vote for him is Shemp, Curly and Larry.
MAGO = Make America Great Opportunity,,,to jump on the Trump band wagon when in power, and jump on to WOKE in a miserable attempt to save his miserable hide when the winds of opportunity change.
“Rep. Brooks did not hit back at Trump directly but said Trump had been “manipulated” by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
I find it hard to believe that Donald Trump can be manipulated by anyone, unless he wants to be manipulated.
Just look at how he let some of his kids, who were liberal, MANIPULATE HIM INTO keeping on taking BAD ADVICE from the deep state loving members of his staff?!
With election fraud as big as what happened in 202, everybody is more than willing to back away from it. Makes you wonder just how deep it really went.
WAYYY Deep. THAT IS why no one in office, is willing to speak about it, let alone RESOLVE IT.
First of all, we should NEVER move on from 2020! That election was STOLEN! And we have a complete senile idiotic fool for a president. We moved on from the 1960 election theft, but at least the dummycrat election thief from that one was still a half decent president. If we would NOT have moved on from that one, the 2020 election theft wouldn’t have happened. There will be more election theft in the future if it isn’t stopped and the people responsible should face hard labor jail time, like working on a chain gang. But I do hope the escapee from a Delaware nursing home goes to Dallas, Texas, during his 3rd year, prefer November, in a convertible Lincoln Continental driving by the Book Depository Building by the grassy knoll.
PERHAPS the Reps should have pushed BACK IN 1960 then, to STOP FUTURE THEFTS of elections? MAYBE Had they done so, we’d not BE HERE… Where the dems could have so WILLFULLY and overtly stolen the 2020 election..