Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) attacks Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a new ad, vowing never to support him for leader if he wins the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama.
“Today, I unveil my pledge to America to fire Mitch McConnell. If elected to the Senate, I will not vote for Mitch McConnell for leader, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that Republicans choose a conservative to be leader. America can’t afford a Senate leader who is a weak-kneed, debt junkie, open-border RINO Republican, and who, worse yet, sells out America for special interest group cash,” Brooks said, according to The Hill.
Brooks asked his challengers in the GOP primary, Mike Durant, a former combat pilot, and Katie Britt, retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R) former aide, to make a similar pledge. Britt is the candidate of choice for the establishment arm of the party.
“I urge my opponents, Katie Britt and Mike Durant, to join me. Do you stand with grassroots conservatives or Mitch McConnell and the RINOs?. Sign this pledge and tell conservatives you’ll fire Mitch McConnell too. I hope Republican Senate candidates nationwide will sign this pledge and send a message to America that we stand with Donald Trump, not Mitch McConnell,” he said.
The ad comes after Trump criticized Brooks for comments he made at a rally in Alabama last summer when he told voters to move past the 2020 election. Trump called him “disappointing” and suggests he might endorse someone else.
“I’m disappointed that he gave an inarticulate answer, and I’ll have to find out what he means,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “If 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.”
The Alabama primary elections are scheduled for May 24, 2022.
