contrary to Trump’s endorsements this year, pumped more than $4 million into Brooks’s race, according to Federal Election Commission reports. On Monday, the campaign is holding events with Sens.
contrary to Trump’s endorsements this year, pumped more than $4 million into Brooks’s race, according to Federal Election Commission reports. On Monday, the campaign is holding events with Sens. Ted Cruz , a likely challenger to Trump for the GOP nomination in 2024, and Rand Paul .
“When it comes to Donald Trump, every Republican candidate on earth professes their allegiance to President Trump,” Cruz said. “The reason I’m here is because I’ve seen this man stand and fight. Talk is cheap.” Brooks’s resilience is surprising for a candidate whose Senate hopes appeared crushed when Trump in March renounced the congressman, who was a top backer of Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election. Polling at the time showed Brooks languishing in third place, in danger of not making a runoff and lagging in fundraising against two flush opponents seeking to replace retiring Sen. Richard C. Shelby.His rivals — Katie Britt, a former top Shelby aide, and military veteran Mike Durant — went dark against Brooks while their campaigns and allied PACs spent more than $4.4 million savaging each other, according to federal campaign finance disclosures. Until a few days ago, there were no TV ads highlighting Trump’s rejection of Brooks. Brooks’s campaign saved up for a final push, airing more than $600,000 worth of ads in the last month of the race, according to data from the media tracking firm AdImpact.“Katie Britt and Mike Durant have been very viciously attacking each other recently,” Brooks said in a brief interview outside the Capitol in late April. “That has hurt their standing and helped my standing.” The campaign’s internal research showed that barely half of the electorate was ever aware that Trump had endorsed Brooks, spokesman Will Hampson said, so it’s likely many voters didn’t find out he lost it either. The sting was also softened by the fact that the former president never endorsed anyone else in the race, despite indicating at the time that he would. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. Whoever emerges as the nominee in the Republican-dominated state has vowed to bring Trump’s brand of politics to the Senate. All three candidates are running under the banner of the former president and his MAGA movement, and they’re roughly splitting the vote among the former president’s supporters, according to Emerson College Polling Director Spencer Kimball.For Brooks, making his case for being the candidate most aligned with Trump has centered on his prominent role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. Brooks was the first House Republican to announce he’d object to the electoral college results on Jan. 6, 2021, and he spoke at the rally that preceded the insurrection, asking the people in the crowd if they were willing to sacrifice “their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes and sometimes their lives … to do what it takes to fight for America.”Jan. 6 committee. But his campaign has touted clips of Brooks’s speech in TV ads. “There’s nobody in the country that was more supportive of Donald Trump or the premise that 2020 was questionable and messed up than Mo Brooks,” said Dale Jackson, a talk radio host in northern Alabama who supports Brooks’s campaign. Trump’s revocation of his endorsement, Jackson said, “clearly did not have the desired impact.”In fact, his campaign originally stumbled when Brooks strayed from that message. While introducing Trump at ain Alabama last August, Brooks urged people “who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020” to “put that behind you.” The crowd responded with boos and shouts of “No!” Trump cited the incident in pulling his endorsement. In the aftermath, Brooks avoided criticizing Trump himself, instead blaming his advisers for misleading him. Brooks took direct aim at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , vowing to oppose him as Senate leader and launching a website and campaign stops under “Fire McConnell” branding. That framing got a boost when the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with McConnell, transferred $2 million in April to a super PAC supporting Britt, according to disclosures to the Federal Election Commission. A Senate Leadership Fund spokesman pointed to an
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