Eleven months in the past, he endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks for the Alabama US Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Richard Shelby.

“Few Republicans have as a lot COURAGE and FIGHT as Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks,” mentioned Trump within the April 2021 endorsement.
That help instantly made Brooks the front-runner within the GOP major. “With President Trump’s endorsement, it is clearly Mo’s race to lose,” former Alabama Republican US Rep. Bradley Byrne informed CNN on the time.

The intervening months have urged that Brooks is effectively on his method to doing simply that.

His fundraising has lagged badly behind that of Katie Boyd Britt, a former chief of workers for Shelby. Britt had raked in nearly $5 million for her marketing campaign via the tip of final yr, in contrast with simply over $2 million for Brooks. (And in line with Politico, Britt’s former boss is about to switch main funds to an excellent PAC supporting her candidacy.)

Maybe extra importantly for Trump, Brooks — who had aggressively pushed the false concept that the 2020 election was someway stolen — is, within the former President’s thoughts, softening on the problem.

“I’m baffled by the view that we will do one thing proper now to place Donald Trump into workplace in the present day,” Brooks informed an area radio discuss present this week.

Add all of it up, and Trump is starting to search for an exit technique.

As CNN’s Gabby Orr reported Friday:

“Whereas Trump has been seething over Brooks’ lackluster marketing campaign efficiency for a number of months now, 4 individuals acquainted with the state of affairs informed CNN that he has reached his breaking level and is weighing when and the way he would possibly pursue a course correction within the contentious Republican major. …”

That story adopted an interview earlier within the week with The Washington Examiner wherein Trump mentioned Brooks was “disappointing.” Trump added: “I am figuring out proper now, has Mo Brooks — has he modified?”

Trump then is attempting to border his second ideas on Brooks as a disagreement on precept. (“[W]hen you endorse any individual, you endorse any individual based mostly on precept,” he informed the Examiner. “If he modified that precept, I might haven’t any downside doing that.”)

However that is probably not what is going on on right here. Keep in mind the primary rule of Trump: At all times be a winner. And its corollary: At all times affiliate your self with winners.

Brooks seemed like a sure-fire winner almost a yr in the past when Trump endorsed him. He is proven himself to be a mediocre candidate with a lot much less of an opportunity of successful since then.

So Trump desires off the boat. As a result of that is what he does.

The Level: Loyalty is a one-way avenue for Trump. He will probably be loyal to you so long as it is good for him. And never one second longer. Sorry, Congressman.

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