Mo Brooks requested Wednesday that his fellow candidates in the Alabama Senate primary drop out in order to allow Attorney General Jeff Sessions to return to the Senate. A spokeswoman for Sessions did not comment, but odd fired back in an emailed statement to Morning Consult Wednesday afternoon.
The goal of Strange's supporters is to diminish Brooks ahead of the August 15 contest. If no candidate gets over 50 percent, there will be a run-off with the top two contenders on September 26.
If elected to the Senate, Brooks said, he would not only vote to replace McConnell as the party's leader but also would approve of far reaching changes in the way the Senate works.
The campaign has become a race to the right.
Brooks said if Trump fired Sessions or forced the attorney general to quit, "a lot of the president's voters, particularly in the primaries, will have mixed feelings about what's going on".
Brooks, like unusual, is the only other candidate in the Republican field who has been elected to a statewide office. "He's the head of the swamp of the U.S. Senate".
"He's wrong and it's hurting America", Brooks said.
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A fourth-term lawmaker, Brooks has not made friends in Republican leadership with his alignment with the House Freedom Caucus, a group that has gotten in the way of House Republican leaders' plans on major issues in the past. Sessions was a die-hard Trump supporter and one of the president's earliest backers who stayed with him during the high and lows of his presidential campaign.
Senate rules requiring 60 votes to approve spending and other major pieces of legislation should be jettisoned, Brooks said.
Brooks, who said he is polling below odd and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, sought to strike a balance Wednesday - supporting Trump's policies but drawing a contrast with his attacks on Sessions.
"There's a distinction between President Trump and candidate Trump", he said of the wall. Strange. McConnell's allies want to paint the conservative Brooks as insufficiently pro-Trump, but in reality it is Republican leadership in Congress that has failed to deliver on President Trump's promises, like full repeal of Obamacare.
"The Second Amendment right to bear arms is to help ensure we always have a republic, so no, I'm not changing my position on any of the rights that we enjoy as Americans", Brooks responds. "It's been six months - I've yet to see it". "I heard him on an interview today and he completely assassinated Donald Trump, and I don't think Mo understands that in the state of Alabama, we love our president and he threw Donald Trump up under the bus today", said Clay Sharpe.
Trump easily won Alabama with more than 62% of the vote.
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