Katie Britt

Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in a runoff.

But when Brooks faltered in the polls against Britt and earlier this spring, Trump withdrew his endorsement, citing comments Brooks made at a rally in August 2021 that encouraged Republican voters to move on and look ahead to the next election. Britt called Brooks a career politician and highlighted criticisms Brooks made of Trump’s immigration program in in the 2016 presidential primary, when Brooks was a surrogate for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign. Brooks tried to keep Trump neutral in the race, noting McConnell’s support for Britt. Brooks suggested that Britt had not done enough to advance Trump’s false narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Brooks had tried to win supporters of Mike Durant, who finished third on May 24, and turn the election into a referendum on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. But Trump, whose endorsements are following trends and not creating them, endorsed Britt on June 10. But I like what she has said.” Both were pro-gun, pro-border wall and anti-abortion, with a heavy focus on national issues and less discussion of state-specific needs. “I just like what she stands for,” she said. Britt Tuesday night thanked Trump for "helping us wrap this thing up." We want fresh blood. Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, fusing establishment support and a major cash advantage to defeat U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in a runoff.

Katie Britt handily won Alabama's Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating opponent U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, who held and then lost the ...

“(Electing more women) seems to be part of a larger shift within the Republican party,” she said. A released recording of Durant telling an Alabama business group he supported bringing more legal immigrants to the country to help companies also preceded Durant’s drop in the polls. Durant was leading polls in the spring before ads showed a video of him in 2011 calling for guns to be taken out of American cities. Britt’s campaign is powered in part by financial support from Sen. Shelby and WinRed, a national GOP fundraising PAC, as well as powerful individuals and groups in Alabama politics. His departure from the U.S. Senate will likely mean a loss of resources for Alabama. Britt has sometimes downplayed her ties to Shelby on the campaign trail. In the May primary, Britt earned 45 percent of vote, just five percentage points short of avoiding a runoff. But Britt did not begin the race as its frontrunner. Britt, an attorney from Enterprise, is now positioned to hold her first elected office. Britt surpassed Brooks by 100,000 votes last month. “It’s an honor. “I’m just excited.

Ms. Britt, now the state's Republican nominee for Senate, made her way to the top with an “Alabama First” message and skillful navigation of a rival's ...

Mr. Jones has said the encounter was consensual, and in a statement after Mr. Kemp sided with his rival he boasted of his outsider status. Former President Donald J. Trump, a popular figure in the state, endorsed Representative Mo Brooks for the job after he emerged as an unwavering acolyte and a stalwart supporter of Mr. Trump’s election falsehoods. Mr. Laxalt, a former attorney general, was endorsed by Mr. Trump and had helped lead his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Nevada. She has noted that Mr. Raffensperger has supported his party’s efforts to tighten voting laws in Georgia in response to the false claims of fraud and irregularities. Mr. Collins benefited from name recognition within the district — he ran for the seat in 2014 and narrowly lost to Jody Hice — and higher fund-raising than the rest of the primary field. Mr. Jones initially jumped into the Republican primary for governor, challenging Mr. Kemp. But Mr. Trump persuaded him to switch to the House race in an effort to clear the field for his preferred candidate, former Senator David Perdue, who lost last month. Mike Collins, who won the G.O.P. nomination in Georgia’s 10th district, is the son of a former congressman. Ms. Nguyen will face Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who turned back a Trump-inspired primary challenge in May and was a star witness at the Jan. 6 hearing in Washington on Tuesday as he testified about his role opposing Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Ms. Britt, a lawyer and former chief of staff for Senator Richard Shelby, had recently announced her campaign to fill the seat being vacated by her former boss, who is retiring. In the end, Mr. Trump backed Ms. Britt, who cuts a more traditional Republican profile as a former congressional staffer, lobbyist and past president of the Business Council of Alabama. Also in Georgia, State Representative Bee Nguyen won the Democratic nomination for secretary of state over Dee Dawkins-Haigler, a former state lawmaker. Mr. Trump backed Mr. Evans, the son of a former ambassador appointed by Mr. Trump.

Republican voters in Alabama are set Tuesday to decide a Senate primary that has flummoxed former President Donald Trump.

They want to know what we’re going to do to lower gas prices, which really affects the price of everything." In the 7th District, Prince William County Supervisor Yesli Vega emerged from a six-way primary as the GOP nominee against Rep. Abigail Spanberger, NBC News projects. In Virginia, meanwhile, Republicans are bullish in a state that not too long ago seemed to have moved decisively toward Democrats. President Joe Biden won there by 10 percentage points in 2020. Brooks ultimately rallied to earn a spot in the runoff against Britt, but she had long since become the GOP front-runner. "Democrats lost in Virginia last November and that trend will continue into 2022,” Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said in an emailed statement Tuesday night. Georgia, meanwhile, dealt another round of blows to Trump, whose endorsed House candidates in two districts were defeated in GOP primary runoffs Tuesday, NBC News projects. Jones, who lost the 10th Congressional District runoff, initially had planned to run for governor. He dropped out to accommodate David Perdue, the former U.S. senator Trump backed against Kemp. Perdue lost, as did Rep. Jody Hice, the Republican Trump endorsed against Raffensperger in the GOP primary for secretary of state. "This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but I am proud to have fought for our country. But Trump soured on Brooks, who had expressed a desire to move on from the 2020 election that Trump continues to falsely claim he won. Vega, the GOP winner in the Virginia 7th district Tuesday night, had been a leader in a Latino coalition that worked to elect Youngkin last year. America, and you all, are worth it."

Ms. Britt, now the state's Republican nominee for Senate, made her way to the top with an “Alabama First” message and skillful navigation of a rival's ...

She shot back with attacks portraying Mr. Brooks as a career politician. “Katie Britt, on the other hand, is a fearless America First Warrior,” Mr. Trump said in a statement this month as he endorsed Ms. Britt. Ms. Britt, a lawyer and former chief of staff for Senator Richard Shelby, had recently announced her campaign to fill the seat being vacated by her former boss, who is retiring. But in oratorical style, she echoed the hard-right talking points that have become commonplace messaging in the Republican Party. What started as an enthusiastic response for Mr. Brooks that night turned to boos when he urged those in the audience to put the 2020 presidential election behind them and focus on 2022 and 2024. That move did not completely wipe out Mr. Brooks, who still managed to clinch a second-place finish in Alabama’s May 24 primary, garnering 29 percent of the vote. In Joe Biden’s America, people can collect more money staying at home than they can earn on the job.” She most recently served as the head of the Business Council of Alabama, a powerful lobbying group, and led a “Keep Alabama Open” campaign in November 2020 against coronavirus pandemic restrictions that required nonessential businesses to close or limit services. “The leftists are attacking our religious freedoms and advancing a socialist agenda. Later, when the former president took back his endorsement of Mr. Brooks, he said the congressman had made a “horrible mistake” with his comments at that fateful rally. On policy, Ms. Britt and Mr. Brooks had ideological differences: He represented a more aggressive brand of arch conservatism as a founding member of the Freedom Caucus while Ms. Britt, like Mr. Shelby, was seen as more focused on economic development. Ms. Britt, 40, is seen as part of a younger generation of pro-Trump Republicans, and her husband’s banter with Mr. Trump was viewed by those familiar with the encounter as an astute move that proved essential to her nomination.

Brooks, a six-term congressman from Alabama, was a strong supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn results of the 2020 election and he objected to the ...

The pair beat out former Army helicopter pilot Mike Durant. - Trump in his endorsement said that Britt "is an Incredible Fighter for the people of Alabama." - Trump rescinded his endorsement of Brooks after the representative told a rally to stop disputing the 2020 election results and to "put that behind you."

Speaking exclusively to Fox News Digital following her GOP primary runoff election victory over Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., Katie Britt described the "surreal" ...

"We still see where there’s not fairness, not equity in the court systems where African Americans’ voices are not being heard… "We have a middle class that needs to grow and move forward," Boyd said. "I want to see equal justice for all," he added. "I wanna grow the middle class from the middle out, from the ground up. As mamas, we know if we don't step up and fight, there's not going to be anything left for our children to fight for." "That's what I'm hearing all over the state.