Former President Donald Trump has rescinded his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) for Senator over the congressman’s decision to focus less on peddling false claims regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump rescinded his endorsement in a statement that was released on Tuesday.
“Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went ‘woke’ and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, ‘Put that behind you, put that behind you,'” Trump said in his statement.
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The former president went on to wrongly claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rife with fraud and irregularities,” even though every claim of election fraud has been debunked or deemed unfounded by fact-checkers and judges alike.
“Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I, and I am hereby withdrawing my Endorsement of Mo Brooks for the Senate,” Trump said. “I don’t think the great people of Alabama will disagree with me.”
Trump didn’t rescind his endorsement of Brooks until several months after Brooks’s comments during a political rally last fall — and notably, Trump’s statement comes one day after a new poll showed Brooks behind two other Republicans running in the senatorial primary. It’s possible, then, that Trump decided to rescind his endorsement out of fear that he may have backed the losing candidate. The primary is set to take place in late May.
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