(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., the GOP underdog in an upcoming primary runoff for the United States Senate nomination, asked former President Donald Trump to re-endorse him after previously losing his endorsement, the Liberty Daily reported.
Although Brooks—a vocal Trump supporter who joined him onstage at the Jan. 6, 2021 “Save America Rally”—had secured Trump’s endorsement previously, Trump took it back after Brooks suggested that the Republican party ought to “move on” from the issue of the stolen 2020 election.
At the time, Brooks also was running in third place and was trailing two frontrunners in fundraising, which suggest’s Trump’s greater concern may have been a losing endorsement record.
But Brooks rebounded before last week’s state primary and is now up against the GOP establishment’s choice, Katie Britt—the former chief of staff for retiring Sen. Richard Shelby— in a two-way contest on June 21.
“I had President Trump’s endorsement at the beginning, but then Mitch McConnell spent millions on TV attacking me,” Brooks wrote in a recent press release. “At the time, it looked like our campaign was going nowhere, and sadly, President Trump pulled his endorsement.”
According to Brooks, Trump’s pulling of the endorsement actually helped in the short term, but now he can secure victory if Trump backs him once more.
“I think President Trump knew what he was doing. He gave our campaign the kick in the pants we needed,” he wrote.
“He was like a football coach, grabbing us by the face mask, and getting us in gear. Part of me wonders if he also knew that in pulling his endorsement, he’d bait ol’ Mitch into thinking we couldn’t win and get Mitch to stop attacking us.”
Brooks argued that he is the only viable candidate for the MAGA right, suggesting that Britt will simply join McConnell and his crew of RINOs.
“I am the MAGA candidate,” he wrote. “I am the Trump candidate. I am the only candidate who will fight for the America First agenda including defending our 2nd amendment rights against Mitch and his loyallists attempts to appease the left.”
