MONTGOMERY, Alabama, USA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump withdrew support Wednesday for Republican Mo Brooks, representative for Alabama seeking a seat in the state Senate.
In a statement, Trump said that Brooks was performing poorly in the contest, had a poor campaign team, and was not giving enough support to the former president's claims that there was fraud in the 2020 election. He added that “in the near future” he will say who he supports.
“Very sad, but since he has decided to go in another direction, so have I, so I withdraw my support for Mo Brooks' candidacy for the Senate,” Trump said in a statement.
“I don't think the great people of Alabama disagree with me,” he added.
The primary in Alabama is on May 24, but since April last year Trump has declared his support for Brooks, who harangued the crowd on January 6, 2021 prior to the assault on the Capitol in Washington.
Since then, Brooks has had two formidable opponents: Katie Britt, former president of a business association, and Mike Durant, a businessman who was a helicopter pilot in Somalia where he was shot down and captured in 1993.
The election will decide who will replace Richard Shelby, a Republican senator who is now retiring. Britt was Shelby's head of office.
By withdrawing his support, Trump tries to avoid the embarrassment of supporting a losing politician in a high-profile contest. Trump, who often flaunts the number of candidates they have won after gaining their endorsement, takes these figures very seriously, considering that they measure his power in the party at a time when he considers running for president again.
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