Former President Donald Trump rescinded his endorsement Wednesday for one of his staunchest supporters in Congress, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who’s fallen behind in the primary race for Alabama's open Senate seat, marking the latest sign his grip on the GOP might be slipping.
Trump in a statement early Wednesday morning attributed Brooks' plunging poll numbers–down from more than 50% in some surveys last year to now under 20%–to his decision to go "woke" and focus his campaign on issues other than Trump's false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Many other prominent Trump-backed candidates who are parroting the fraud claims are also struggling, like former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who's trailing incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) in the polls despite the ex-president launching a barrage of attacks against the governor.
Polls still show his chosen candidate in the Georgia Senate race, former football star Herschel Walker, neck and neck with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), but Walker's campaign has been plagued by a series of bizarre gaffes, like Walker falsely claiming he graduated from the University of Georgia and publicly questioning evolution at an event last week.
In Texas, it's not clear legally embattled, Trump-backed Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will even win the GOP nomination in his reelection effort—Paxton gathered just 42.7% of the vote in the first round of the GOP primary and now faces Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush in a...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has accused President Donald Trump of being insincere on the death of an ISIS Commander, Abu-Bilal al-Mainuki. US President Donald Trump had announced the killing...