In an apparent attempt to keep former president Donald Trump on his side, GOP Representative Mo Brooks, of Alabama, released a new campaign ad in which he vows to vote for the removal of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his leadership position for criticizing Trump if Brooks is elected to the Senate in the midterms.
“Today, I unveil my pledge to America to fire Mitch McConnell,” Brooks says in the ad. “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,” he added.
The new ad from Brooks comes at a precarious time for the Alabama lawmaker after Trump threatened to rescind his endorsement over his “poorly run” Senate campaign in Alabama.
Brooks has based his campaign on Trump’s endorsement, but the former president has expressed frustration with the six-term congressman over remarks at a rally last year in which he urged attendees to move on from the 2020 election, in an apparent jab at Trump’s “Big Lie” about his election loss to Joe Biden.
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“I’m disappointed that he gave an inarticulate answer, and I’ll have to find out what he means,” Trump told The Washington Examiner last week. “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,” Trump added.
Brooks hopes that the new anti-McConnell ad could be a way to put him back in Trump’s good graces since McConnell has cut ties with the former president over the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
RELATED: Mo Brooks Mocked For Releasing Ad Touting His Jan 6 Speech As Trump Throws Him Under The Bus.
Watch the ad below:
