{"id":1491369,"date":"2022-05-25T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T14:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491369"},"modified":"2022-05-25T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T14:14:53","slug":"alabama-gop-senate-hopefuls-katie-britt-mo-brooks-head-to-run-off-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-gop-senate-hopefuls-katie-britt-mo-brooks-head-to-run-off-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama GOP Senate Hopefuls Katie Britt, Mo Brooks Head To Run-Off Election"},"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\">24<\/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%2Falabama-gop-senate-hopefuls-katie-britt-mo-brooks-head-to-run-off-election%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=1491369&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--><p>Alabama Senate hopeful Katie Britt received the most votes in the state\u2019s GOP primary on Tuesday evening but failed to secure more than 50% support and will now face Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) in a primary runoff on June\u00a0 21.<\/p>\n<p>Britt, outgoing Alabama Senator Richard Shelby\u2019s former chief of staff, secured 44.76% of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/may24-2022-elections\">according<\/a> to Decision Desk HQ. Brooks received 29.16%.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks previously had the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, but he yanked that support after Brooks told his followers to move on from the 2020 presidential election. Britt, in turn, has been marketing herself as the true \u201cAmerica First\u201d candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Alabama! What an incredible night! We still have a lot of work to do. But I\u2019m ready to take on the fight. We\u2019re going to win on June 21! I\u2019ll hit the ground running on day one as Alabama\u2019s next U.S. Senator,\u201d Britt tweeted. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll always put America and Alabama First.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Alabama! What an incredible night!<\/p>\n<p>We still have a lot of work to do.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>But I\u2019m ready to take on the fight. We\u2019re going to win on June 21!<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>I\u2019ll hit the ground running on day one as Alabama\u2019s next U.S. Senator.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>And I\u2019ll always put America and Alabama First. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/alsen?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#alsen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIhxbGJkCS\">pic.twitter.com\/EIhxbGJkCS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Britt for AL (@KatieBrittforAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieBrittforAL\/status\/1529306798154448896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the election, Britt zeroed in on her support for Trump\u2019s America First agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only am I the only candidate in the race who\u2019s actually voted for the president every single time he\u2019s been on the ballot, but also I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work on the America First agenda. I understand it. I know what it means,\u201d Britt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/senate-candidate-katie-britt-message-disaster-joe-biden-alabama-primary-election-game-on\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0in a recent interview with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Britt added that she has relayed to Trump why she\u2019s \u201cthe best candidate to advance the America First agenda.\u201d The Alabama frontrunner is also clearly making this a campaign against President Joe Biden\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has seen that our country was moving in the right direction under President Trump, and now under Joe Biden it is a disaster. I mean, there is no doubt that we are weaker and more vulnerable every single day that Joe Biden is the president,\u201d Britt added.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks, meanwhile, has received the support of folks like Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to Donald Trump, every Republican candidate on earth professes their allegiance to President Trump,\u201d Cruz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/23\/forsaken-by-trump-brooks-finds-second-wind-alabama-senate-race\/\">told<\/a> an audience recently. \u201cThe reason I\u2019m here is because I\u2019ve seen this man stand and fight. Talk is cheap,\u201d he added in praise of Brooks\u2019 policies.<\/p>\n<p>Women for America First, a non-profit dedicated to advancing America First principles, also endorsed Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know he\u2019s the best candidate to represent the state of Alabama while working to Make America Great Again,\u201d Women for America First Chairwoman Amy Kremer <a href=\"https:\/\/wfaf.org\/endorsements\/#toggle-id-2\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement on Monday. He has a battle-tested record of being a conservative fighter. If elected, he will continue that work with other conservatives in the US Senate to defend our Constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Senate hopeful Katie Britt received the most votes in the state\u2019s GOP primary on Tuesday evening but failed to secure more than 50% support and will now face Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) in a primary runoff on June\u00a0 21. Britt, outgoing Alabama Senator Richard Shelby\u2019s former chief of staff, secured 44.76% of the vote, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1491392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491369","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\/1491369","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}