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'The establishment's on the rise.' McConnell dodges a bullet in ... (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump ended up on the same side of Alabama Senate race.

If it had, then the Trump candidate would swamp the McConnell candidate - but once Trump pulled the plug on Brooks and Britt beat back [a third candidate] Mike Durant, the cake fully baked in favor of Britt.” And once Trump stuck the knife in and un-endorsed Brooks there was just no real rationale for his candidacy,” said Zac McCrary, a Democratic pollster in Alabama. “Ultimately I don’t think there was ever a credible narrative around Britt and McConnell, it never felt like a Trump vs McConnell race. Once Britt took first in the initial round of voting, Trump jumped on board with his support. “We were on the rise,” Paul said of the lot of outsider, insurgent congressional contenders who have scored wins over the past dozen years. Brooks tried mightily to make his opposition to McConnell a centerpiece of the race, declaring that he wanted to replace the Republican leader and naming one of his campaign swings the “Fire McConnell” tour. Paul traveled to Alabama on Friday to campaign for Brooks in Homewood and Huntsville, Alabama. On Monday evening, he was the featured speaker on a Brooks tele-townhall.

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Mo Brooks loses to Trump-backed Katie Britt in Alabama GOP ... (The Week Magazine)

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a founder of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and one of former President Donald Trump staunchest congressional supporters, ...

Brooks still ran under the banner "MAGA Mo" and tried to get Trump's endorsement back in late May after narrowly earning a spot in the runoff election, The Associated Press reports. Jordan, a former Democrat, lost to trucking company owner Mike Collins in Georgia's 10th Congressional District, while Evans was beaten by emergency room doctor Rich McCormick in the 6th District. Britt, 40, also had the endorsement and financial backing of Shelby and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and their political action committees. She is expected to beat Democratic nominee Will Boyd in the fall. "Congratulations to the Democrats — they now have two nominees in the general election," he said. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), a founder of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and one of former President Donald Trump staunchest congressional supporters, lost Alabama's Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to first-time candidate Katie Britt, a former chief of staff to outgoing Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). The Brooks-Britt runoff was the highest profile race in Tuesday's primaries in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

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Salty Mo Brooks Congratulates Dems After Losing Senate Runoff ... (TPM)

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), projected to lose Alabama's GOP Senate primary runoff against rival Katie Britt after a full slap in the face from ex-President ...

“Donald Trump just had his head handed to him by Georgia voters, having lost five major races that he endorsed in, and he’s trying to restore his brand,” the congressman said. “They worked hard for their values.” CONTRIBUTE

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Tuesday election takeaways: Trump's conditional loyalty, new ... (WTVC)

A Republican who was backed by Donald Trump at the last minute prevailed on Tuesday in an Alabama Senate runoff. But Trump's losing streak deepened in ...

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Abandoned by Trump, Alabama's Mo Brooks loses GOP primary (MSNBC)

It's quite clear that Donald Trump has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself," Mo Brooks said.

Alabama has 67 counties, and the congressman appears to have lost 66 of them. When Sen. Richard Shelby announced his retirement, Brooks saw the same opportunity again, and this time, he thought he knew exactly how to succeed. With nearly all of the votes tallied, Brooks trailed by 26 points. Five years ago, Rep. Mo Brooks saw a unique opportunity to become a U.S. senator. The pieces were in place. He even thought he could receive support from Donald Trump — the incumbent president to whom Brooks had offered unconditional support.

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Alabama: Katie Britt Defeats Mo Brooks in Republican Senate Primary (Democracy Now!)

In Alabama, Katie Britt defeated Congressmember Mo Brooks in the Republican Senate primary to replace the retiring Senator Richard Shelby. Donald Trump had ...

McCraw also revealed one Uvalde police officer, who was inside the school, was detained while trying to save his wife, Eva Mireles, one of the two teachers shot dead. The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.” “An abject failure” — that’s how the head of the Texas state police has described the response of local authorities to last month’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, when an 18-year-old gunman shot dead 19 fourth graders and two teachers.

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Trump-backed Britt defeats Brooks in Alabama Republican Senate ... (WFAE)

Katie Britt has secured the GOP nomination for an Alabama U.S. Senate seat, ousting U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in a runoff, according to a race call by The ...

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Britt in the runoff. The seat is considered by forecasters to be safely Republican. Britt received 44.8% of the vote to Brooks' 29.1%.

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Katie Britt beats Mo Brooks in GOP Senate race in Alabama (The Mercury News)

Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama Tuesday, defeating six-term Rep. Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald ...

Brooks clawed his way into a second-place finish in the May primary and tried once again to get Trump to back him. Brooks was initially considered the frontrunner when he announced his Senate candidacy, and Trump quickly offered his support, rewarding an ally who had been an ardent supporter of Trump’s false claims of election fraud. And in central Virginia’s 7th District, Yesli Vega emerged from a competitive six-candidate field to face Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger. And his trouble in the crucial swing state deepened Tuesday as two of his endorsed congressional candidates faltered in their GOP run-off elections. In his concession speech Tuesday night, Brooks told supporters he respected the race’s outcome. But their relationship soured as Brooks struggled to gain traction. “We want someone who will fight for Christian conservative values, who will fight for the freedoms and liberties this nation was founded on and will fight for the American dream for the next generation and the next generation.” Still, Tuesday’s result gives Trump a win at a time when his influence over the GOP has come under scrutiny. The loss ends a turbulent campaign that pit Brooks, a conservative firebrand who has spent more than a decade in Congress, against someone who has never held elected office. The state’s previous female senators had been appointed. Britt, 40, cast herself as part of a new generation of conservative leaders while disparaging Brooks, 68, as a career politician. By the time Trump backed her earlier this month, Britt was already considered the favorite in the race.

Trump's Flip Snags Him a Win in Alabama (U.S. News & World Report)

Trump last year endorsed loyalist Mo Brooks, a six-term congressman. But he rescinded his backing and supported Katie Britt, who won the primary, ...

Incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp was renominated in May despite Trump's aggressive campaign to oust him and nominate former Sen. David Perdue. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – whom Trump asked to "find" enough votes to make the former president the winner in Georgia – also won his May primary without a runoff. In Georgia on Tuesday night, two Trump-endorsed candidates for House seats – Jake Evans and Vernon Jones – lost. Britt's win aggravates some of Trump's base but spares the former president of a high-profile embarrassment. MAGA movement leaders Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity backed Brooks until the end, as did Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Paul visited Alabama on Brooks' behalf last Friday. Shelby voted to certify the 2020 election results that made Joe Biden president. The former president, whose midterm endorsees have a mixed record this election season, then threw his support behind Britt, even though he had derided her former boss.

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Mo Brooks Falls With Trump's Knife in His Back (New York Magazine)

In a June 21 Republican Senate runoff, the long reactionary career of Alabama's Mo Brooks likely came to an end. His idol Donald Trump dumped him in favor ...

All she really needed to seal the deal with Trump was to pay minimum lip service to his stolen-election fables by calling for a “nationwide forensic audit” of the 2020 results. Change her gender and her party ID, and Britt indeed looks familiar: a smart, young wheeler-dealer who knows how to shake down the federal government for the folks at home just like her mentor Shelby; a loyal satrap to corporate interests in the Deep South (Britt most recently ran the state’s top business-lobbying group); and a fair-weather demagogue willing to mouth right-wing culture-war pieties as a price of admission to power. Mo lived by the MAGA sword and died by the MAGA sword. But instead he became the leading congressional champion of Trump’s effort to reverse the 2020 election, and when veteran pork-barreler Richard Shelby announced he would retire in 2022, Brooks leapt into the U.S. Senate race with Trump’s support and an early lead in the polls over Shelby protégé Katie Britt. Casting about for an excuse to dump Brooks, Trump seized on the hard-core constitutionalist’s refusal to support a post-inauguration ouster of President Joe Biden to suggest that this classic troglodyte had gone “woke.” He soon de-endorsed Brooks. Mo served one four-year term in the Alabama House and left in 1986.

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