Alabama Republican Mo Brooks is calling for Mitch McConnell to be ousted as Senate GOP leader, making him the party’s third major Senate candidate to come out in favor of booting the Kentucky Republican
to be ousted as Senate GOP leader, making him the party’s third major Senate candidate to come out in favor of booting the Kentucky Republican.
Despite Trump’s encouragement, anti-McConnell sentiment has not caught on broadly among GOP Senate candidates. And Brooks is releasing the ad at a treacherous moment for his campaign. Trump told the Washington Examiner last week that, who has trailed his primary opponents in fundraising. In the interview, Trump ripped Brooks for urging Republicans to move on from questioning the results of the 2020 election.
Brooks says in the spot that McConnell “will do everything he can to defeat me because he’s determined to stop the MAGA movement and Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates for the U.S. Senate,” and he challenges Britt and Durant to join him in supporting McConnell’s ouster.A McConnell representative declined to comment.
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