He's the second pro-Trump Republican to launch a campaign to replace Sen. Shelby.
were"clearly designed to reinvigorate people for the 2022 election cycle."
This is not Brooks's first attempt to represent Alabama in Congress' upper chamber. In 2017, he unsuccessfully ran in the special election to replace former Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump's first attorney general. Receiving just 20% of the vote, Brooks came in third in the primary and did not advance to the runoff. Former Judge Roy Moore went on to win that runoff but ultimately lost to former Democratic Sen.
The"civil war" between the pro-Trump and establishment wings of the GOP may escape Alabama's Senate primary, with the lead up to the primary instead being defined by candidates trying to prove to voters that they are the most loyal to the popular, former president and the"America First" agenda he championed.
Unlike in Georgia, where strategists argued that sort of GOP infighting hurt former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler in her unsuccessful runoff campaign against now-Sen. Raphael Warnock, Alabama's a Republican stronghold. Absent a similar scandal like the one Moore faced in 2017, a Democrat winning this election is more than unlikely. All three major race raters -- Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball and Inside Elections -- say the seat is safely Republican at this point.