The Alabama congressman and MAGA loyalist learned he had lost Trump's endorsement through a reporter's tweet.
“Trump is concerned she might be a lap dog for McConnell because of Shelby. He likes Durant because he’s not a politician.” Durant visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday, according to people close to the two men. That way, he’s assured of being able to say that he won.” “It’s a lesson to everyone,” Bannon continued. It’s too early to tell whether the loss of Trump’s endorsement sounds the death knell for Brooks’ campaign. But Steve Bannon, another Trump ally, said Brooks would continue to be invited onto his “War Room” show, despite Brooks’ departure from MAGA orthodoxy. You got to go to the next play, and the next play is 2022, 2024 elections.” Britt and Durant have declined to weigh in on the question. “He didn’t have the courtesy or the chutzpah or whatever to let me know first, so somewhat blindsided me this morning,” Brooks said, still in shock from the surprise of hearing the news at the same time as everyone else. Brooks and Trump had a phone conversation as recently as last Monday without any mention of the endorsement being in peril, according to Brooks’ campaign. If we forget, the Radical Left Democrats will continue to Cheat and Steal Elections,” Trump said in a statement Wednesday morning, referring to an August rally where Brooks said it was time to move on from 2020. The people get it, but unfortunately, Mo doesn’t,” he said.
Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican who was deeply involved in former President Donald J. Trump's effort to use Congress to upend the 2020 ...
On Jan. 6, he wore body armor as he addressed the throng of Trump supporters who gathered at the Ellipse near the White House, telling them to “start taking down names and kicking ass.” “Will you fight for America?” Other Republicans involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election — Representatives Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania — have refused requests from the panel for interviews. “There is one and only one per the Constitution and U. S. Code and it occurs on the first Jan. 6 after each presidential election. Mr. Brooks did not immediately respond to further questions. On Dec. 21, 2020, Mr. Brooks and other House Republicans met with Mr. Trump at the White House to discuss plans to object to the election.
Mo Brooks' Republican Senate campaign has been struggling, and now the former president has pulled his endorsement, citing a dispute over the 2020 election.
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"As a lawyer, I've repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict."
Period." What he's saying: "I repeat what has prompted President Trump’s ire. Driving the news: "President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency," Brooks said in a statement.
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama repeated his claim Thursday that former President Donald Trump has personally asked him to work to rescind the 2020 election, ...
Brooks was once one of Trump's most loyal supporters on Capitol Hill. He was among the first Republicans to pledge to work to use the certification of the election on January 6 to overturn the results. "A committee spokesperson declined to comment when asked if the committee would be interested in talking to Brooks based on his new comments. He then told the crowd to "carry that message to Capitol Hill."While Trump's direct pressure on lawmakers and government officials at both the state and federal level to intervene in the election have been well documented, he largely gave up his public and legal push to overturn the results after the violence on January 6. The Alabama Republican first made the claim in a statement responding to Trump's decision to pull his endorsement in the Senate race. We got to take Joe Biden down and put me in now'."When asked if Trump still says that to him, Brooks said, "yes."Trump sues Hillary Clinton and DNC, alleging conspiracy to link his campaign to RussiaBrooks, who lost the endorsement of the former President in his race for the US Senate in Alabama said that despite Trump's pleas he has made it clear to him that his request was impossible. The President has asked me to rescind the election of 2020," Brooks told WIAT. "He always brings up, 'we've got to rescind the election.
Donald Trump's decision this week to revoke his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) for Alabama's Senate seat is a body blow to the struggling candidate.
Trump added that a recent statement from Brooks that Republicans should put the 2020 election behind them was why Republicans were abandoning his campaign. It’s one thing to believe, as many Republicans wrongly do, that the 2020 election was stolen; it’s quite another thing to believe that Congress can simply declare an election null by majority vote, unseat a duly inaugurated leader and reseat Trump. Only Trump’s most fanatical supporters would possess such a manifestly undemocratic and unhinged view. More worrying for Trump, only 55 percent said they would definitely or probably vote for him in a 2024 GOP primary, his lowest mark since just after the Jan. 6 riot. Echelon Insights’ March poll found that only 40 percent of Republican voters say they are primarily a supporter of Trump rather than the party. If Trump’s analysis were correct, both Durant and Britt would have tried to embrace Trump’s election fraud conspiracy claims. In a typically bizarre statement, Trump ascribed Brooks’s decline to the candidate’s alleged failure to tie himself closely enough to the former president.
Former President Donald Trump has pulled an endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in this year's Alabama Senate primary, slamming the Republican as "woke" and ...
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday pulled his endorsement from Alabama Republican Senate candidate Mo Brooks, who has struggled in recent polling.
And as a U.S. senator, he was great." "I think the president saw what was happening with Mo Brooks and his campaign. "As a lawyer, I've repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U. S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks." I am the only candidate who fought voter fraud and election theft when it counted, between November 3 and January 6," Brooks said. "When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable. Trump endorsed Brooks in April 2021 in the race for retiring Senator Richard Shelby's seat, when Brooks had a substantial double-digit lead in the polls.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded his endorsement of Alabama Senate candidate Rep. Mo Brooks, citing comments by the House Republican ...
As Brooks has said in recent weeks, he reiterated that there is no “legal way” to overturn the election now. “I am hereby withdrawing my Endorsement of Mo Brooks for the Senate,” Trump said. I break my sworn oath for no man.” “I don’t think the great people of Alabama will disagree with me. Brooks further claimed in his statement that Trump “asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency.” “I’ve told President Trump the truth knowing full well that it might cause President Trump to rescind his endorsement,” Brooks said.
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama lost Donald Trump's backing for his Senate race despite endorsing claims that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election by fraud.
"Every single negative TV ad against our campaign has come from McConnell and his allies," Brooks said. The Twitter account for his Senate campaign also prominently says "Endorsed by President Trump" in its profile. Brooks actually has been among the most ardent supporters of those false claims. Period." "Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went 'woke' and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, 'Put that behind you, put that behind you,' despite the fact that the Election was rife with fraud and irregularities," Trump said in a statement. Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday withdrew his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in the GOP U. S. Senate primary election in Alabama, bitingly citing Brooks' call for fellow Republicans to stop obsessing over the 2020 presidential election results as they try to win races in 2022 and 2024.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday pulled his endorsement from Alabama Republican Senate candidate Mo Brooks, who has struggled in recent polling.
And as a U.S. senator, he was great." "I think the president saw what was happening with Mo Brooks and his campaign. "As a lawyer, I've repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U. S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks." I am the only candidate who fought voter fraud and election theft when it counted, between November 3 and January 6," Brooks said. "When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable. Trump endorsed Brooks in April 2021 in the race for retiring Senator Richard Shelby's seat, when Brooks had a substantial double-digit lead in the polls.
Trump called Brooks "woke" for saying it was time to move on from the 2020 election.
Period." * "I repeat what has prompted President Trump’s ire. What he's saying: "When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable.
President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White ...
In addition to speaking at the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol—where he told gatherers to “start taking down names and kicking ass”—Brooks spent much of last year amplifying Trump’s claims of voter fraud, saying there is “overwhelming and compelling” evidence (of which he provided none) that “somewhere in the neighborhood of 900,000 to 1.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2020 presidential election overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.” In a TV ad that aired just last week, the congressman showed footage of his January 6 speech and proclaimed that on that day he “proudly stood with President Trump in the fight against voter fraud.” In a statement issued on Wednesday, Representative Mo Brooks, who is running for U. S. Senate in Alabama, said, “President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency. In a statement issued Wednesday, Trump claimed Brooks “blew the election” and made a “a horrible mistake” by going “woke” and calling for people to move on from the 2020 election.
Mo Brooks is reacting to news that former President Donald Trump has rescinded his coveted endorsement as the north Alabama congressman battles for the ...
“President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency. As a lawyer, I’ve repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U. S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks. “I repeat what has prompted President Trump’s ire,” Brooks stated. “If we forget, the Radical Left Democrats will continue to Cheat and Steal Elections. Just look at what is happening in Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and elsewhere, but tremendous progress has been made that will help us in 2022 and 2024,” Trump’s initial statement read. I am the only candidate who fought voter fraud and election theft when it counted, between November 3 and January 6.” I wish President Trump wouldn’t fall for McConnell’s ploys, but, once again, he has.”
Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in the Alabama Senate race, citing the candidate's remarks on moving past the 2020 ...
Brooks, a staunch Trump ally, was at the forefront of calls to challenge the 2020 presidential election. "President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency," Brooks said. Then, Trump backed Roy Moore, the Republican who won that nomination, when he lost to Democrat Doug Jones. When Trump endorsed Brooks, it looked like the third time might be his charm in Alabama. In February, Brooks lashed out at Britt, saying it was false that Trump had cold feet. In an interview with NBC News, Brooks said Trump made the request after Sept. 1, 2021 — when Biden had been president for more than seven months. If no Republican wins at least 50 percent May 24, the top two vote-getters move on to a runoff for the nomination. Trump has met with both of them. In neighboring Georgia, for example, Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue is trailing in his bid to deny Gov. Brian Kemp re-nomination. "As a lawyer, I repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U. S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks. Mo fell behind in the polls as a result. And then there’s [Jeff] Sessions. Mo called him one of the best senators we ever had.” “It’s not just the voter fraud stuff that pissed off Trump," one Trump adviser said.
Former President Donald Trump has yanked his endorsement from Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks, promising to make a new endorsement in the race before the ...
President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency. As CNN has previously reported, Trump has told allies he's impressed with Britt's fundraising and has taken a liking to her husband, Wesley Britt, who played for the New England Patriots. Britt served as chief of staff to retiring Shelby. He had previously told aides he is skeptical of Durant, who received a major boost in the race in the form of spending by More Perfect Union, an outside group that has committed to supporting moderate candidates in red and blue races. Trump met with Army veteran Mike Durant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday to discuss the race and get a better feel for the candidate, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Donald Trump rescinds his endorsement of Mo Brooks in Alabama's US Senate raceFormer US President Donald Trump welcomes candidate for US Senate and US Rep. Mo Brooks to the stage during a "Save America" rally at York Family Farms on August 21, 2021 in Cullman, Alabama. Former President Donald Trump has yanked his endorsement from Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks, promising to make a new endorsement in the race before the May 24 primary." And in the last two weeks, he has publicly accused Trump of asking him to break the law by exploring ways to reinstall him as commander in chief."
Mike Durant? Katie Britt? Should Brooks be counted out? The pundits weigh in on their views over who is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in the 2022 ...
Durant, in interviews in January, said he didn’t see the “relevance” of his family’s situation in the Alabama Senate race and blamed his opponents for a “hack job.” “I told her to save her bullets and find a better opportunity,” Gray said he recalls telling Britt during the onset of her campaign. “As Durant become more of a target for competing campaigns, will people pick up on the potential personal or campaign and business-related shortcomings?” Williamson said. Brown said that what Trump doesn’t want to do is endorse a candidate who is going to lose in the primary. “From my perspective, it’s Britt’s race to lose at this point,” said Ryan Williamson, a political science professor at Auburn University. “She checks a number of boxes in terms of connections with Shelby, who himself is very well-respected. The campaign says the contributions are in line with federal requirements. “Or I could see him keeping watch over how Britt behaves and if Britt’s people are putting money into the Trump super PACs. He’ll assess the situation and bide his time.” Cook Political Report and other rating agencies list Alabama as a “solid Republican” state during the 2022 general elections. Most pundits believe the Senate race will extend out to June 21, when a GOP runoff takes place. The group often supports Republicans based on their adherence to a free-market, free-trade, and anti-regulation agenda. The PAC has played an influential role by funneling millions of dollars into past Alabama Republican primary contests, including backing Barry Moore’s candidacy during a tight race against Jeff Coleman during Alabama’s 2nd congressional district race in 2020. “He has also avoided being popped yet like Britt and Brooks, each hit negatively.”
Trump said it was because Brooks wanted to move on from the 2020 election. But the real reason may be that Trump hates to lose.
As a reminder of how petulant Trump can be when he’s feeling insulted, he put out the withdrawal of the endorsement to his list of reporters without calling Brooks first. “Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went “woke” and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, “Put that behind you, put that behind you,” despite the fact that the Election was rife with fraud and irregularities,” Trump said in a statement. And anyone looking to move anywhere outside the aura of Trump will feel his wrath. Then according to Trump, when Brooks started talking about moving on from 2020, his “lead totally evaporated.” Trump continued: “I said, ‘Mo, you just blew the Election, and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I.” Trump has met with both within the last month. “When I endorsed Mo Brooks, he took a 44-point lead and was unstoppable,” Trump said in a statement. As recently as last week, Trump had been pushing Brooks to decertify the results of 2020, remove Biden, and schedule a special election for the balance of this presidential term, Brooks said. Despite the failed insurrection by Trump supporters—and the first siege of the U. S. Capitol since 1814—lawmakers returned to their workplace across shards of glass and the sting of chemicals in the air and certified Biden the winner. A tap from Trump is akin to a crown. Telling Trump—and the public—there was no legal pathway to reinstate Trump immediately as President and discard Joe Biden. That’s right: Trump is still pursuing an unrealistic strategy of setting aside the 2020 results right now and simply moving back into the White House as though he won. And, yet, for almost eight years, Republicans looking to get a piece of the Trump action have set aside that undeniable fact, thinking that they’d be the exception to the rule. This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter.