Abandoned by Trump, Alabama’s Mo Brooks
loses GOP primary
Posted By: cThree, 7/6/2022 6:37:29 AM
Five years ago, Rep. Mo Brooks saw a unique opportunity to become a U.S. senator. Jeff Sessions had just left Capitol Hill to become the attorney general, and the Alabama congressman was ready for a promotion. He even thought he could receive support from Donald Trump — the incumbent president to whom Brooks had offered unconditional support. That didn’t work out. In the 2017 special election, Trump brushed off the Republican lawmaker and threw his support behind Luther Strange, who ended up losing to Roy Moore in a GOP primary.
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McConnell and Meredith also have declined to comment.
Gov. Andy Beshear's office reversed course Tuesday and turned over a June 23 White House email that confirms President Joe Biden intended to nominate an anti-abortion Republican to a lifetime appointment as a federal district judge in Kentucky. (Snip) [Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville] and other officials have told The Courier Journal they believe Biden agreed to appoint Meredith, a Federalist Society attorney who has fought against abortion rights, so that McConnell would not hold up future White House nominations.
McConnell and Meredith also have declined to comment.
Five years ago, Rep. Mo Brooks saw a unique opportunity to become a U.S. senator. Jeff Sessions had just left Capitol Hill to become the attorney general, and the Alabama congressman was ready for a promotion. He even thought he could receive support from Donald Trump — the incumbent president to whom Brooks had offered unconditional support.
That didn’t work out. In the 2017 special election, Trump brushed off the Republican lawmaker and threw his support behind Luther Strange, who ended up losing to Roy Moore in a GOP primary.
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Alabama Republicans have chosen a sparkler, Katie Britt. This MSNBC "report" is a Hate Trump broadside, of course. Author Benen was only a year old when Nixon resigned, so when he snarks, Trump sees loyalty as something he’s supposed to receive, not bestow, his big takeaway, he doesn't remember the price of RMN's stubborn downward loyalty, much less McGovern's support for Tom Eagleton. Loyalty must be inviolable flowing up. Flowing down it has to be thin.