Mo Brooks

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

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.

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

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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 But he rescinded his backing and supported Katie Britt, who won the primary, ...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.

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.

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.

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.

When Congressman Mo Brooks arrived Tuesday night at his Republican Senate runoff watch party, he said that no matter what happened in the election, ...

Brooks said weeks ago he has not been served the subpoena, though the other four congressmen who were simultaneously subpoenaed by the committee said they have been served. The committee said it issued the subpoena last month when Brooks declined to cooperate with their request to meet. By golly, we did what we could do for our country against virtually overwhelming odds – overwhelming financial odds more than anything else – overwhelmingly power of special interest groups who dictate so much and control so much in Washington, D.C. “It’s time for me to hand the torch over to patriots who will continue to fight for America,” Brooks said. By then, Brooks would be 72 and out of office for four years. The earliest a seemingly appealing office would be up for election again would be in 2026.

Former President Donald Trump welcomes U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama to the stage during a rally at York Family Farms on August 21, 2021 in Cullman, Alabama.

Brooks and Britt fought to a draw during the May 24 primary, leading to Tuesday’s runoff, which Britt won by 26 points. Trump yanked the endorsement even as Brooks refused to testify to the panel investigating Jan. 6. Which, of course, sounds pretty appealing whether you’re a Trump interested in cementing a legacy or if you’re a Trump simply fueled by vengeance. Reportedly, he cheered on the mob and, in recent weeks, tried to get back in Trump’s good graces. But as the fallout from Jan. 6 became more clear, Brooks had started to go wobbly in Trump’s eyes. In the end, the many times Brooks had bent over backwards to keep Trump appeased had proven to be irrelevant. Still, in the runoff, Strange came up short to Roy Moore, a former state Supreme Court justice whose record included installing the Ten Commandments in his courtroom and his courthouse, and instructing jurors to pray. A few hours later, many of those at the pro-Donald Trump rally at the Ellipse had breached the Capitol, laid siege to lawmakers, and broke the building’s defenses for the first time since 1814. Republicans in Washington warned against having anything to do with Moore, who had been accused of sexual assault and dating teens while he was in his 30s. When it came time for Jones to face re-election in 2020, Trump once again decided to play ball. For a time, Sessions even made the short list for Trump’s running mate. Alabama is, of course, an odd place for Trump to flex a political acumen.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said he plans to spend time with his family in retirement.

Trump later endorsed Britt for the position. Katie Britt, the former chief of staff to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), won Alabama's Senate runoff on Tuesday, beating out Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.). The big picture: Brooks also took aim at Trump after the runoff election, saying the former president is not a “man of his word" and has “no loyalty." - Brooks was a strong supporter of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. - Former President Trump previously endorsed Brooks before rescinding it after Brooks told a rally to stop disputing the 2020 election results. Driving the news: Brooks' decision comes less than 24 hours after he lost the runoff election to Katie Britt, the former chief of staff to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).

The Jan. 6 select committee is re-issuing its subpoena for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) after process servers failed to track down the Republican congressman for ...

"We will address anything that comes to us." He added, "It doesn't make any difference to me. He is the only member we haven't been able to serve," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chair of the committee, told reporters at the Capitol. Running for the Senate." - "He hasn't said that to us," Thompson said of those terms. - Thompson said Wednesday the panel will decide on the "next step" for those subpoenas “in the next week or two.” We haven't been able to serve him. What to watch: Brooks laid out several "basic" preconditions for testifying: He wants the deposition to be public and the questions asked by the committee members, not staff. - He also wants questions to be "limited to matters that relate to Jan. 6," and to have an advanced look at any documents he'll be asked about. They've already got all my information." - Thompson said the panel "couldn't find him" because he "hasn't been here [at the Capitol], he's been campaigning. Why it matters: The committee has honed in on Brooks' allegation in March that former President Trump asked him to "rescind the 2020 elections" and "hold a new special election for the presidency."

The former president pulled his endorsement of Brooks in March, accusing the Republican of going "woke." Brooks on Wednesday told Politico that Trump has ...

On Tuesday night, Britt handily defeated Brooks in the Republican primary. And I want them to fight for America as I have." But Brooks' time in DC may not be over quite yet. Then, in June, Trump endorsed Brooks' rival, Katie Britt, former chief to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby, as she surged ahead in the polls. The lawmaker told Beavers that Trump won't do anything unless it "enhances his wallet or his ego." Trump's reversal came as Brooks' fundraising and poll numbers were dropping.

Rep. Mo Brooks -- one of the Republican lawmakers facing calls from the January 6 committee to testify about his interactions with former President Donald ...

He also said he'd testify only about matters related to January 6, 2021, and wants to see copies of any documents beforehand that the panel may ask him about. Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, told CNN that the panel has "redone his subpoena" and "he's the only member we hadn't been able to serve." for Brooks and four other Republicans last month, he had yet to be served with one because he had been campaigning for the GOP Senate nomination in Alabama. Brooks lost in a runoff