Katie Britt wins Alabama Senate GOP runoff,
setting up fall win for open seat
Washington Examiner,
by
David M. Drucker
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/21/2022 9:37:05 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Katie Britt won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama with a landslide runoff victory over Rep. Mo Brooks, capping a come-from-behind campaign that saw her first spurned but then endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Few believed Britt, 40, was viable last June upon entering the campaign against Brooks, one of the first Republican Senate contenders of the 2022 election cycle to receive a coveted Trump endorsement. But the former chief of staff to retiring Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) shrugged off Trump’s early criticism that she was an unqualified, establishment lackey — leapfrogging Brooks in the polls, finishing first
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/21/2022 9:44:47 PM (No. 1192986)
This is probably the most moronic decision someone made on behalf of Donald Trump, who it appears doesn't even bother to do basic background research before making a decision. Here, he backed the woman who as RINO legend Shelby's chief of staff helped elect a Clinton Democrat to the US Senate in an election marred by a fake sex scandal; a Democrat senator who then helped foil the last 2 years of the MAGA movement, all over a very petty personal beef.
FTA: Meanwhile, Britt, former president and CEO of the Alabama Business Council, has traveled far, politically, from early in the campaign, when Trump, in backing Brooks, mocked her as an “assistant” to Shelby, whom the former president called “the RINO Senator from Alabama, close friend of Old Crow Mitch McConnell.” Now? “Katie Britt,” Trump said in his June 10 endorsement statement, “is a fearless America first warrior … Katie Britt will never let you down.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
minuteman 6/21/2022 10:04:41 PM (No. 1192996)
Trump stabbed Brooks in the back.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TXknitter 6/21/2022 10:22:11 PM (No. 1193011)
Agree with you both, #1 and 2. I heard a lengthy interview Katie did on War Room with Steve Bannon. He gave her the floor and asked the usual questions. You could tell he has her number. A perky Katie Couric rino in hiding. It was so obvious as she rattled off memorized Republican establishment talking points. A swamp endorsement. So disappointed !
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/21/2022 10:31:14 PM (No. 1193019)
David Drucker displays considerable skill in injecting his biases into a straight news story.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 6/21/2022 11:46:03 PM (No. 1193053)
I have no clue why PDJT endorsed Cheerleader Kkkkkkkkatie. (She is too cute by half.)
I voted for Mo. He either didn’t have the money (a lot of Kkkkkatie’s ads were funded by BI (Big Interests) or he didn’t want to campaign.
Mo didn’t run but a few ads and I never felt the enthusiasm for him that was needed to overcome the Perky One.
Very disappointed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sully 6/22/2022 12:46:34 AM (No. 1193076)
I feel bad for Brooks. Never shoulda said, "time to move on" from the 2020 steal. That was bad. That sentiment, it seems, is the unpardonable sin to DJT. I do not blame him. One. Stinking. Bit.
The 2020 steal must Never be put aside. It must be gutted filleted and exposed for the entire world on a meat rack. People are just starting to sniff the air around that stinking carcass.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GardenGal 6/22/2022 2:31:48 AM (No. 1193103)
We here in Huntsville didn't like Mo. You cannot have a senator from this area who says moronic things in the House. Now, I am not a proponent of idiotic climate change stuff. I believe that while Human behavior may have a small significance. much larger significances are volcanoes, Ocean currents, and Sun Spots. But he said he questioned in a committee meeting about maybe the sea is rising because of the Mississippi River. Uhh, no.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dman 6/22/2022 9:53:07 AM (No. 1193305)
#1 highlights why we need a third [MAGA] party:
1 Seated 'Establishment' leadership (RINOs) control campaign funds.
2.Seated 'Establishmant' leadership (RINOs]) set primary election rules.
3. 'Open' primaries allow cross-overs (Democrats) to corrupt the results.
4. A third party (MAGA) can control of who it nominates
or endorses in the primaries, and thwart cross-over
'dirty tricks' in the general election.
[Democrats will not likely vote for a third party candidate over the
Democrat candidate in the general, unless they are ex-Democrat
MAGA.]
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Sorry #8, no. As Rush used to patiently point out, a third party would be a disaster for Constitutional conservatives and the country. Ya might want to brush up the history of third parties in the U.S....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Stencil 6/22/2022 11:51:32 AM (No. 1193406)
Don't overlook this aspect of the thing:
"As the couple greeted Trump, Britt’s husband, Wesley Britt — a burly retired NFL lineman — mentioned to the former president that he had once played for the New England Patriots. “The only time you’ve met me, I think I was wrapped in a towel in the Patriots locker room,” Wesley Britt was said to have told Trump, who found it hilarious and replied that Robert K. Kraft, the team’s billionaire owner, “likes me very much.”
Mo was a defender of rights but a p-poor campaigner and politician, had much less funding, and lost his major endorsement. K. Britt is of the McConnell/Shelby vein. Something other than conservative politics swayed his call.
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