Maybe RepMoBrooks was onto something when he urged grassroots Republicans to move past their disappointment with former President Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020 and “look forward” to the midterm elections.
Britt brought Brooks’s political career to an ignominious end Tuesday, soundly defeating the congressman in a primary runoff contest to win the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama. Britt, the 40-year-old former chief of staff to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby , beat Brooks, 68, by executing a future-oriented campaign focused on key voter priorities such as inflation, illegal immigration, and China.
“Campaigns and candidates matter,” Schriver added. “Katie Britt ran an excellent race tactically, organizationally, and strategically.” “All right, well, look back at it, but go forward and take advantage of it,” he said sheepishly last August. Brooks, who appeared with Trump at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, and led the charge to oppose certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, went back to respecting the former president’s preoccupation with his unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
By the time Trump yanked his support for Brooks in March, amid his precipitous slide, Britt had climbed from 4% in public opinion polling at the outset of her campaign and surpassed the congressman on her way to earning 45% and a first-place finish in the May 24 primary. By the opening of the polls Tuesday morning in the runoff, Britt was headed for a comfortable victory.
But Republicans who followed this race, and Brooks’s nearly 12-year career on Capitol Hill, are not necessarily surprised and say the congressman only has himself to blame.
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