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Mo Brooks
early and often
June 22, 2022
Mo Brooks Falls With Trump’s Knife in His Back “MAGA Mo” couldn’t win once Trump endorsed Katie Britt, a 21st-century Republican version of the conservative Democrats Brooks used to battle.
By Ed Kilgore
Oh, Mo! Trump Betrays ‘MAGA Mo’ Brooks Yet Again, Endorses Britt Having endorsed and then de-endorsed his onetime January 6 ally, Trump is again making it clear that his idea of loyalty is not reciprocal.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 6, 2022
De-endorsed Mo Brooks Begs Trump to Take Him Back MAGA Mo, who lost Trump’s support, has come crawling back to Mar-a-Lago, desperate for a boost in his runoff against McConnell favorite Katie Britt.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 25, 2022
Trump Dumped Mo Brooks. He Made the Senate Runoff Anyway. The January 6 speaker survived Trump’s ludicrous “woke” accusation and will face Katie Britt in next month’s Alabama GOP Senate runoff.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 12, 2022
Mo Brooks May Survive Trump’s Betrayal in Alabama Senate Race The representative sojourned on after Trump unendorsed him for alleged “wokeness.” Now he has a decent chance at making a GOP runoff.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Mar. 23, 2022
Trump Dumps Mo Brooks, Calling January 6 Speaker ‘Woke’ The congressman’s real sin was running a bad Senate campaign. Trump rescinded his endorsement rather than sticking with a loser.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Mar. 18, 2022
Mo Brooks Is Getting a Lesson on Trump’s View of Loyalty Brooks was a fiery supporter of Trump’s 2020 coup. But the ex-president may yank support for the congressman’s Senate bid as he’s no fan of losers.
By Ed Kilgore
The Midterms Could Give the Senate a MAGA Makeover Retirements and primary challenges could decimate the Senate’s Establishment Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
covi-19 vaccines
July 27, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares COVID Vaccine Requirements to ‘Segregation’ The good news is that MTG has stopped using Holocaust analogies to attack anti-COVID measures. The bad news: She’s found another offensive analogy.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
July 7, 2021
Why Primary Runoffs Will Matter in the 2022 Midterms In states without runoffs, Trump targets like Representative Liz Cheney may escape his wrath.
By Ed Kilgore
Greene’s Logic: Democrats Are Nazis, So Their Agenda Is Like the Holocaust In the MAGA world, where all Democrats are socialists, and Adolf Hitler was a socialist, all Democratic initiatives are like the Holocaust.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 12, 2021
Sex, Trump, and Insurrection: Alabama Republicans Are at It Again With Mo Brooks winning Trump’s endorsement and John Merrill imploding in a sex scandal, Alabama’s 2022 Senate primary is off to a fine start.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Mar. 22, 2021
Capitol Riot Rabble-rouser Mo Brooks Running for Senate The congressman was outflanked on his right in Alabama’s 2017 Senate race. That will not happen this time around.
By Ed Kilgore
Richard Shelby, the Last of the South’s Senate Party-Switchers, to Retire The six-term Alabama senator never changed that much but went with the flow of conservative southern politics.
By Ed Kilgore
self defense
Jan. 12, 2021
Mo Brooks Is Definitely Not a Criminal, So Stop Asking In a bizarre statement, Brooks defended himself from “scurrilous, George Orwellian, 1984, Socialist Democrats Politics of Personal Destruction.”
By Sarah Jones
capitol riot
Jan. 11, 2021
Mo Brooks Slapped With Censure Resolution Over Pre-Riot Speech The GOP representative was an instigator of the Electoral College vote coup effort and helped incite the crowd that violently disrupted it.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Jan. 5, 2021
How the January 6 Electoral-Vote Count Will Work It will be a tedious day full of bogus election-fraud claims, placing Pence in a tight spot — but Congress will affirm Biden’s win in the end.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 30, 2020
Hawley to Trigger Congressional Vote on Trump’s Election Coup The circus will come to Congress on January 6, but the man at center ring is Mike Pence, who will preside over a joint session to certify electors.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Dec. 29, 2020
The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s Win In 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 17, 2020
Will Two Alabama Extremists Force a Vote on Overturning the Election? Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville are two peas in a pod from the same right-wing patch and may make every Republican go on record about Trump’s claims.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Dec. 15, 2020
McConnell Finally Acknowledges Biden As President-elect It’s taken a long time, but the dam has broken, with Republican senators undermining any last-minute rebellion against the results in January.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Dec. 10, 2020
Every Republican in Congress May Have to Vote on Trump’s Coup Die-hard supporters of the president may force a January vote to overturn Biden’s Electoral College majority.
By Ed Kilgore
No, Congress Won’t Help Trump Overturn the Election Alabama congressman Mo Brooks’s last-ditch effort to protest the electoral vote count won’t amount to much.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 alabama senate race
June 20, 2019
Judge Roy Moore Rides Again Into a 2020 Senate Race Everybody’s favorite theocrat and alleged mall creeper is again threatening to wreak havoc on his party’s Senate prospects in Alabama.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 16, 2019
Poll Shows Roy Moore Is Still the Wacko to Beat in Alabama Moore may draw multiple GOP rivals, but don’t bet the farm against him — or against Democratic incumbent Doug Jones.
By Ed Kilgore
alabama senate
Apr. 4, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks Compares Democrats, Media to Hitler No smear is too stupid or disgusting for Mo Brooks in his effort to win Trump’s support for a possible 2020 Senate race.
By Ed Kilgore
Good News for Democrats: Judge Roy Moore Mulling Another Senate Race in Alabama Moore may want a rematch with Doug Jones because he thinks he was robbed, and a rematch would be a best-case scenario for the red-state Democrat.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
May 17, 2018
GOP Congressman: Rising Sea Level Caused by More Dirt on Ocean Floor A bold new scientific theory by Rep. Mo Brooks catches a scientist off guard at a congressional hearing.
By Jonathan Chait
Trump Endorses Another GOP Senator Facing a Perilous Primary Battle Trump unsuccessfully backed Alabama’s Luther Strange against a field of more Trumpian rivals. Now he’s making a similar play in Mississippi.
By Ed Kilgore
Nick Saban Gets Crushed in Alabama Senate Election Many thought Saban would get many write-in votes in a Senate contest between an alleged predator and a Democrat. He did not.
By Ed Kilgore
Only One Man Can Save the Alabama Senate Race for the GOP So long as Roy Moore stays in the race, there’s only one man who could beat him as a write-in. And it’s not Luther Strange.
By Ed Kilgore
Roy Moore Beats Trump’s Candidate in Alabama Senate Runoff Despite presidential and vice-presidential campaigning and massive infusions of money, appointed senator Luther Strange lost handily.
By Ed Kilgore
Alabama GOP Senate Preview: A Strange Struggle in a Pro-Trump State Donald Trump went to Alabama to pull his candidate across the finish line to victory in a GOP Senate runoff. But it’s not looking good for Big Luther.
By Ed Kilgore
So Much for ‘Bipartisan’ Trump: He’s the Congressional GOP’s Best Friend Again In backing a partisan health-care bill and working to save McConnell’s candidate in Alabama, POTUS is back in harness with his congressional party.
By Ed Kilgore
Could Trump Be About to Stab Luther Strange in the Back? After deflating Mo Brooks’s candidacy with a surprise endorsement of Luther Strange, reports now suggest Trump could turn his back on Strange, too.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Needs to Stop Whining About the Filibuster For all his complaining about the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, Trump passed up the chance to take the issue to GOP voters in Alabama.
By Ed Kilgore
Judge Roy Moore Has Big Lead in First Poll for Alabama Senate Runoff Luther Strange may need all the money and all the Trump love he can get to catch up with Roy Moore, who’s winning over supporters of other candidates.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Fans Moore and Strange Head to a Runoff in Alabama Senate Race All of Mitch McConnell’s fundraising and Trump’s endorsement only won Luther Strange a second-place finish and a runoff fight with Judge Roy Moore.
By Ed Kilgore
Alabama GOP Senate Primary Getting Strange-er After Trump Intervention Alabama GOP voters likely to vault the wheezing campaign of Trump’s endorsee Luther Strange into a runoff with the grim celebrity theocrat Roy Moore.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Shocks Alabama Republicans by Endorsing Luther Strange for the Senate The president shook up a tight three-way race for the GOP Senate nomination by endorsing Mitch McConnell’s candidate just days before the primary.
By Ed Kilgore
Jesus, Trump, and Guns: Luther Strange’s Ultimate Alabama GOP Ad In a race marred by negative ads, Senator Luther Strange has a positive spot that’s got more shout-outs to conservative icons than you can count.
By Ed Kilgore
In Alabama Senate Race, There’s Stiff Competition to Be the Most Pro-Trump All three major candidates profess to love the president. But they’re really fighting about Mitch McConnell.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Trump Jump Into Alabama’s Crazy Senate Primary? He could tap McConnell’s favorite Luther Strange or Hannity’s favorite Mo Brooks. Theocrat Roy Moore’s in the mix, too.
By Ed Kilgore
Republican Blurts Out That Sick People Don’t Deserve Affordable Care Mo Brooks says what many conservatives believe but aren’t supposed to say: If you need lots of medical care, it’s your fault.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 4, 2014
By Jonathan Chait