Former President Donald Trump spoke out on Wednesday, endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks, who is running for an open seat in the Alabama Senate after the Republican suggested the country drop the 2020 race.
Mo Brooks of Alabama recently made a terrible mistake when he “woke up” and said in reference to the 2020 presidential election scam, “Leave it behind, leave it behind,” despite the fact that the election was rife with fraud and irregularities. Trump said.
Trump said Brooks lost “a 44-point lead” after he hired new campaign staff who “brilliantly” told him to “stop talking about the 2020 election.”
Former President Donald Trump (R) spoke out Wednesday, endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks (L), who is running for an open seat in the Alabama Senate after the Republican suggested the country drop the 2020 race during a Trump rally in August (on a photo)
“He listened to them,” Trump said. “Then, according to the polls, Moe’s 44-point lead completely evaporated based on his 2020 statement made at our mass rally in Cullman, Alabama.”
In August, Brooks advised rallies to “leave 2020 behind us,” as Trump said, and was criticized by the crowd who yelled “no” and booed.
“Look ahead, look ahead, look ahead. Defeat them in 2022, defeat them in 2024,” he shouted over the noise. “Okay, we’ll look back on this, but go ahead and take advantage of this. We have to win in 2022, we have to win in 2024, that’s what we have to do.”
The crowd seemed to be back on Brooks’ side when he asked if they would help the Trump and MAGA candidates “take our country back.”
“When I heard his statement, I said, ‘Mo, you just failed the election and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ Very sad, but since he has decided to go in a different direction, so do I, and hereby withdraw my approval of Mo Brooks for the Senate,” Trump said Wednesday.
“I don’t think the great people of Alabama would disagree with me. Election fraud must be caught and stopped, otherwise we will no longer have a country, ”continued the ex-president. “In the near future, I will make a new endorsement!” he said.
Brooks hoped to fill the Senate seat vacated by outgoing Republican Senator Richard Shelby, but Shelby is already financially backing one of Brook’s GOP rivals, Cathy Britt, Shelby’s former aide.
It wasn’t clear where Trump got the 44 from, but Brooks and Britt were leading in two dueling polls last month.
A Club for Growth poll by WPA Intelligence found that 35 percent of GOP voters wanted Brooks to win the primary. Britt received 25 percent of the shares, coming in third behind another candidate, Mike Durant.
Club for Growth supports Brooks.
However, Britt’s internal campaign poll showed that she won with 29 percent of the vote, while Brooks had 28 percent and Durant 23 percent.
In a Gray Tv/Alabama Daily News poll released Tuesday, Durant came in first.
He received 34.6% support from Alabama Republicans, followed by Britt at 28.4%.
Brooks finished third with 16.1%.
Trump met with Britt in February, sparking speculation that he has buyer stings over his Brooks endorsement he handed out last year, according to the Politico Playbook.
The Playbook says Trump was particularly annoyed that Brooks was seeking the approval of former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, who was also Trump’s first attorney general.
Rep. Moe Brooks was one of the closest members of Congress to Trump. He spoke at a January 6 “Save America” rally on an ellipse that occurred in front of a MAGA crowd storming the US Capitol.
Trump and Sessions fell out after Sessions decided to withdraw from an FBI investigation into Russia that looked into interference in the 2016 election and links to the Trump campaign.
Sessions #2, Rod Rosenstein, has decided to appoint Special Counsel Robert Mueller to take over the investigation.
Brooks has been a prominent supporter of Trump in the US Congress.
He appeared at the infamous “Save America” rally, which took place on the morning of January 6 before the MAGA mob stormed the US Capitol.
Brooks was such a supporter of Trump that he said he would be “proud” if one of his employees helped plan the rally that took place before the attack, according to The Washington Post.
“Honestly, I would be proud of them if they helped organize a First Amendment rally to protest vote rigging and election theft,” Brooks said in October.