Could former U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks make another run at U.S. Senate?
Brooks, who ran and eventually fell to now-U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), is weighing his options to run for U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Auburn) soon-to-be-vacant seat, the North Alabama Republican told "Alabama's Morning News with JT" host JT Nyeswander.
According to Brooks, his reasons to run would include solving the national debt and standing up to the White House when it is "wrong," which he noted he would have done during the passage of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
“[T]here are reasons to run and reasons not to run," Brooks outlined. "Reasons to run, just by way of example, would be that we have a $37 trillion debt, $2 trillion a year in additional debt, our annual deficit, and another trillion dollars in taxpayer money being spent servicing the debt. And we need somebody in Washington, D.C, that understands the seriousness of that and will do something about stopping America from going through an economic catastrophe from a national insolvency and default. And I haven't got confidence in any of the candidates right now that they're going to be strong on that issue. And then, quite frankly, Donald Trump and America needs some representatives and senators who will stand up to the White House when the White House is wrong. And they were wrong when they pushed through a five trillion dollar increase in our debt ceiling."
"They were wrong when they passed a budget that added seven trillion dollars to our debt over the next four years and $19 trillion to our debt over the next decade. And all of our congressmen and senators with maybe exceptions like Thomas Massie, one or two, they vote for this Republican debt. You know, creditors don't care if it's Republicans or Democrats who run up the debt," he continued. "They expect to get paid regardless. And these Republicans who would have voted against all these things if the Democrats had pushed it, that's somewhat hypocritical to vote for them when it's Republicans pushing it.”
As for why he wouldn't run, Brooks pointed to his disagreements with Trump and that he would not only not get his endorsement, but he would likely be on the receiving end of an attack from the president.
“Certainly, [Trump's] a factor in any kind of Republican primary," Brooks stated. "And I'm quite confident that he would not endorse me and probably would attack me, if you remember last time, in a fit of pique, he called me a woke liberal. And I'm going, 'Holy cow!' You know, I've got one of the most conservative voting records in the U.S. House of Representatives. And this Donald Trump just spreads falsehoods. And he spreads them because he called me up around February of 2022, right before the Republican primary, and he demanded that I publicly come out for physically, through force, removing Joe Biden from the White House, physically reinstating Donald Trump as president, calling for a new presidential election. Now this would have been in 2022 now, OK? And then also voiding the 2020 election."
"Well, all of those things run afoul of the United States Constitution, and I took an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. And I told him, 'Look, Mr. President, I agree with what happened in 2020 being wrong. I fought it, but the chance to change it, according to the United States Constitution and federal law, was January 6, 2021, and that was it. You can't really expect me to publicly call for the use of force to remove a President of the United States who the Constitution says is lawfully in office. And gosh, he got mad, and he shortly thereafter withdrew his endorsement of me," HE ADDED.
Brooks said he could "afford to wait" on announcing another candidacy because he had good name recognition. He added that he wanted to see how some of Trump's policies regarding immigration carve-outs and the economy played out.
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