(CNN)Former President Donald Trump is on the brink of withdrawing his endorsement from Alabama Senate hopeful Mo Brooks following a series of public and private missteps by the Republican congressman, including back-to-back statements this week in which Brooks declined to affirm Trump's belief that the 2020 election result can be overturned.
"I am baffled by the view that we can do something right now to put Donald Trump into office today," Brooks said in a local radio interview Thursday, one day after he told an Alabama newspaper there was no "legal" mechanism by which Trump could be reinstalled as president.
"Whoever is giving him that advice is misleading President Trump," Brooks told AL.com.
While Trump has been seething over Brooks' lackluster campaign performance for several months now, four people familiar with the situation told CNN that he has reached his breaking point and is weighing when and how he might pursue a course correction in the contentious Republican primary to succeed retiring Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby. Two of these people said a phone call that took place between Trump and Brooks earlier this week precipitated Trump's decision to publicly criticize Brooks in an interview with the Washington Examiner that published Wednesday.
"He basically said, 'What is wrong with you? Why aren't you doing better?' and Mo said, 'I don't know what you're talking about,'" recounted a person familiar with their conversation.
Trump endorsed Brooks last April, saying...
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