Trump rescinds Brooks endorsement in Senate race in Alabama

Published March 23, 2022 5:46 am

By KIM CHANDLER and JILL COLVIN
Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has rescinded his endorsement of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks in his state’s Republican Senate primary, dealing a major blow to the congressman’s campaign. The former president blamed Brooks’ performance and what Trump perceived as Brooks’ attempt to move Republicans beyond the former president’s false 2020 election fraud claims. Brooks is in a three-way fight with Katie Britt, former head of a state business group, and Mike Durant, a businessman best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and held prisoner in the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident. Brooks responded by saying that he has’t changed, but that the 2020 election results cannot be overturned.

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