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Britt beats Brooks in Senate primary that divided MAGA-world - POLITICO

Britt beats Brooks in Senate primary that divided MAGA-world - POLITICO

Britt beats Brooks in Senate primary that divided MAGA-world - POLITICO
Jun 22, 2022 2 mins, 11 secs

The Alabama election pitted one of Donald Trump’s loyalists against the candidate the former president actually endorsed.

Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt talks to supporters during her watch party, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Montgomery, Ala.

Republican voters in Alabama resolved a high-profile feud in MAGA world on Tuesday, casting votes in the GOP Senate primary runoff between one of former President Donald Trump’s most loyal acolytes, and the candidate who ultimately earned his final endorsement.

Katie Britt won the runoff after Trump turned on Rep.

While Brooks initially received Trump’s endorsement in the Senate race, the former president rescinded his support this spring as Brooks’ campaign floundered, eventually endorsing Britt, the frontrunner, after the state’s May 24 primary went to a runoff.

Even after Trump put his weight behind Britt in the runoff — and as public and internal polling showed Brooks’ prospects as weak — top conservative commentators like Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin and Charlie Kirk declared their support for Brooks up to the final day of the campaign.

Throughout the runoff campaign, Britt continued to rack up her own endorsements from high profile Republicans, including Sens.

“We were glad Donald Trump was with us on so many things, but it doesn’t make him the end-all of everything.

“I would say, without question, Mo Brooks is probably the most loyal person to Donald Trump than probably all of the congressmen I can think of, and there’s certainly a sense of bad irony that the president didn’t repay that loyalty.

Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a Trump nemesis, while Brooks is an adversary of the Senate minority leader.

The former president of the Business Council of Alabama, Britt veered right as the campaign progressed, including unveiling her own restrictive immigration plan and criticizing Congress’ spending on Ukraine aid, something Shelby — and Brooks, for that matter — voted last month to support.

Meanwhile, Britt and several super PACs supporting her spent more than $5 million on television advertisements during the four-week runoff, compared to less than half a million by Brooks and the Club for Growth, which endorsed him in the race.

“She has got the support of McConnell, she’s got the support of Shelby, she’s got the support of the Chamber, and yet she is supposed to be Tom Cotton on immigration and Rand Paul on foreign policy,” said Ryan Girdusky, a Republican operative supporting Brooks, who was also involved in a super PAC backing Vance in Ohio.

Trump endorsed candidates in both seats — Jake Evans in the 6th District and Vernon Jones in the 10th — but their opponents won both primary runoffs easily

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