HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rep. Mo Brooks, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama, plasters his campaign rallies with signs for “MAGA Mo” and echoes Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
His rival, Katie Britt, says there were “major problems” with the vote, but has stopped short of Trump’s baseless assertion that it was stolen. She fought her way to the front of the race with the help of party leaders Trump derides as RINOS, or “Republicans in Name Only.”
But ahead of the Tuesday runoff, Trump is squarely behind Britt, who is regarded by local Republicans as the front-runner, and drawing fierce criticism from Brooks, making for one of the most unusual conclusions to a primary fight this year. The winner of the Republican nomination will enter the general election as a heavy favorite in this ruby-red state.
A year ago, Trump’s pick seemed obvious. He endorsed Brooks, the loyalist who once boasted that he “led the charge” to reject Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. But as Brooks fell in the polls in March, Trump abandoned him and raged over the congressman’s suggestion that voters “look forward” to 2022 and 2024, eventually issuing an endorsement for Britt.
The flip-flop and its aftermath show how Trump’s freewheeling endorsement strategy in the midterms has at times scrambled the Republican battle lines, forcing some longtime allies to fight for his voters and leaving some staunch supporters of the former president feeling disillusioned. His uneven...
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