{"id":1384980,"date":"2022-03-16T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384980"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:08:34","slug":"mo-brooks-blames-bogus-poll-katie-britt-campaign-lies-for-trump-second-guessing-alabama-u-s-senate-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mo-brooks-blames-bogus-poll-katie-britt-campaign-lies-for-trump-second-guessing-alabama-u-s-senate-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Brooks Blames &#039;Bogus Poll,&#039; Katie Britt Campaign Lies for Trump Second-Guessing Alabama U.S. Senate Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmo-brooks-blames-bogus-poll-katie-britt-campaign-lies-for-trump-second-guessing-alabama-u-s-senate-endorsement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the Alabama political world on Wednesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mo-brooks-is-disappointing-trump-mulls-pulling-alabama-senate-endorsement\">comments given to the Washington Examiner\u2019s David Drucker<\/a> about his position on the Alabama U.S. Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>In what was described as a \u201cwide-ranging telephone interview,\u201d Trump said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d in Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and suggested that Brooks may have \u201cchanged\u201d since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2021\/04\/07\/donald-trump-endorses-rep-mo-brooks-over-lynda-blanchard-for-alabama-senate-seat\/\">he endorsed him<\/a> nearly one year ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMo Brooks is disappointing,\u201d Trump said to the Examiner. \u201cI\u2019m determining right now, has Mo Brooks \u2014 has he changed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, the former president is reportedly considering whether or not he will pull his endorsement, referring to comments from Brooks given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/22\/alabama-still-solidly-trump-country-as-estimated-30000-attend-rally\/\">at a rally in Cullman, AL<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed that he gave an inarticulate answer, and I\u2019ll have to find out what he means,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIf it meant what he sounded like, I would have no problem changing [my endorsement] because when you endorse somebody, you endorse somebody based on principle. If he changed that principle, I would have no problem doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Brooks campaign blamed <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowhammernews.com\/forestpac-poll-durant-33-8-britt-32-0-brooks-17-6\/\">a \u201cbogus poll\u201d from the Alabama Forest Association\u2019s ForestPAC<\/a>\u00a0showing U.S. Army veteran Mike Durant leading the U.S. Senate Republican primary narrowly over former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, 33.8% to 32%, with Brooks in third at 17.6%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the campaign, the Britt campaign lied to Trump and that she was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s (R-KY) candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the deal: Katie Britt and her team put out a bogus poll, then lied to President Trump about it,\u201d a Brooks spokesman said in a statement given to Breitbart News. \u201cShe\u2019s still in third place where her pathetic campaign has always been, and that might explain the President\u2019s mindset\u2013 they lied to him. The matter has been addressed, President Trump knows Katie Britt lied to him, he knows she\u2019s Mitch McConnell\u2019s candidate, and he\u2019ll remember this episode. He also knows Mike Durant\u2019s campaign is being funded by Never Trumpers. There is no other choice for President Trump: not Mitch McConnell\u2019s candidate, and not a Never Trumper.\u00a0President Trump also knows Mo\u2019s position\u00a0on 2020 has never changed: the 2020 election was fraught with voter fraud and election theft on a massive scale, and\u00a0that\u00a0Mo Brooks was the ONLY one in this race to stand with him on January 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Republican voters head to the polls on May 24 to cast a ballot for their preference to represent the GOP on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_poor\">@jeff_poor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through the Alabama political world on Wednesday in comments given to the Washington Examiner\u2019s David Drucker about his position on the Alabama U.S. Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}