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Retiring Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) endorsed Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for vice president Sunday, contending the “media overreaction” she received following her highly scrutinized and oddly delivered State of the Union rebuttal “tells us who liberals most fear as VP nominee.” The failed 2012 Republican presidential nominee took to X to defend Britt following a wave of criticism over her rebuttal, which was described by some as “cringe.”

Sen. Katie Britt's, R-Ala., official Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Thursday night turned heads — but not for any of the right reasons.The freshman senator's high-profile rebuttal was stern in its focus on immigration and the state of the economy — two key sticking points against the president — but had a bizarre delivery, according to The Daily Beast. Its dramatic cadence and beige-toned kitchen backdrop left political operatives and observers unsure of what to make of it.Britt's performance was so unnerving that some Republicans watched "with a grimace," the Daily Beast reports. A...

Joe Biden’s dumpster-fire presidency continues to make a mockery of the U.S. Constitution, spotlighting once again that a motley crew of incompetent stooges is running the White House. In the latest abomination, Biden was called out for sneakily inserting a temporary Cabinet-level official into the presidential line of succession. In a scathing statement Wednesday, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama blasted him for flouting the Constitution by improperly elevating acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to the line of succession. “The Biden Administration continues to attempt to rule by unilateral decree rather than govern with the advice and consent of Congress,”...

Katie Britt said she went to the hospital after experiencing a 'sudden onset of numbness' in her face.. Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt announced Monday that she is recovering in outpatient care following a hospital visit for a sudden medical scare. Britt, 41, said she was spending time with her family in Montgomery, Alabama, over the weekend when she experienced a "sudden onset of numbness" in her face. "While with my family in Montgomery this past weekend, I experienced a sudden onset of numbness in my face. I was admitted to Baptist Medical Center South for evaluation," she said in...

Pro-life Republican leader Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the first female governor of Arkansas in 2023. On Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly approved the former White House Press Secretary to be their governor, defeating Democrat candidate Chris Jones by nearly 30 percent, NPR reports. Sanders is one of three pro-life Republican women who won major races in Arkansas and Alabama on Tuesday. Katie Britt, the newly elected U.S. Senator of Alabama, and Arkansas Lt. Governor-elect Leslie Rutledge also are the first women to hold the offices. In a statement after her victory, Sanders promised to work for Arkansas families. “I want to...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) got into a fiery argument with a “Fox News Sunday” guest host over the 2020 presidential election, which Brooks repeatedly claimed was stolen and riddled with fraud. When Brooks pressed his claims of voter fraud and pushed for tighter election laws, guest host Sandra Smith countered that effort after effort had failed in court to prove the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump. “The congressmen and senators disagree with you, with what you just said,” Brooks told her. “Elections are going to be stolen if we don’t fix these problems.” Smith and Brooks then...

Rep. Mo Brooks, a one-time ally of former President Donald Trump, said he's willing to testify before the January 6 panel investigating the Capitol riot if subpoenaed. Thompson told The Hill that Brooks wasn't served his earlier subpoena because he had been on the campaign trail. Until this point, Brooks has not cooperated with the January 6 panel, having rejected a letter from the committee in May that called for him to testify. In July 2021, Brooks told a reporter that he wore body armor to the pro-Trump rally at the Ellipse just before the January 6 Capitol riot. At...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), projected to lose Alabama’s GOP Senate primary runoff against rival Katie Britt after a full slap in the face from ex-President Donald Trump, concluded his rocky campaign with some bitter words in his concession speech on Tuesday night. “The voters have spoken,” but “they might not have spoken wisely,” Brooks complained to supporters at his election night party, per the Washington Post. The ultra-MAGA congressman took a shot at Britt, who won a last-minute endorsement from Trump, and her apparent lack of MAGA-ness. “It’s always appropriate to congratulate the winners, and some of these winners might...

In case you didn’t know (between the horrid “bi-partisan” gun bill the Senate is attempting to pass and the distressing news out of Uvalde), there are several primaries and runoff elections happening tonight.One race that RedState has watched closely is the Alabama Senate contest. Former President Donald J. Trump first endorsed, then pulled said endorsement from U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, and instead backed his challenger Katie Britt, a former Chief of Staff to Sen. Richard Shelby, who is retiring from this Senate seat.The runoff contest became a choice between the true MAGA candidate and the Republican establishment candidate.On Tuesday night,...

Former President Donald Trump rescinded his endorsement of Republican Rep. Mo Brooks earlier this year — and it likely just cost him his seat. GOP candidate Katie Britt was declared the winner of Alabama’s Republican Senate run-off on Tuesday night. She will face Democrat Will Boyd in November’s general election for the open Senate seat, which is predicted to remain in Republican hands. Last week, Trump tossed his full support behind Britt. Britt received the most votes in the state’s GOP primary but she failed to win more than 50 percent support on election night. Britt is outgoing Republican Sen....

Mo Brooks opposed the Biden-Pelosi Defense Bill Katie Britt supports. Here’s what Britt’s endorsing: Red Flag Gun Confiscation, Critical Race Theory, taxpayer paid sex change operations, renaming bases and even drafting women. Katie Britt’s a woke moderate who supported Doug Jones over Roy Moore, while sitting silently as Britt Demolition took down Birmingham’s Confederate Monument. Katie Britt. Too Weak. Too Woke. Wrong. For Alabama.

With less than 24 hours until Republican voters go to select their choice for who will represent the GOP in November's U.S. Senate election, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) is calling for his opponent, former Business Council of Alabama head Katie Britt, to be disqualified for what he claimed as supporting Doug Jones in his 2017 U.S. Senate bid against then-Republican candidate Roy Moore. Brooks' overtures about the 2017 election have been a fixture on the campaign trail during this 2022 cycle. However, on Monday's broadcast of Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Brooks called the Alabama...

The Monologue Consider this one the powers that be in Big Government-Big Business don't want to create any more electricity generating capacity with fossil fuels. But these same powers want everyone to use electric cars. And they want to manipulate electricity production towards wind and solar. "A Nationalist Is The Same As A Communist"... The Police Unions Are A Powerful Force In Our Country-Ask Chesea Boudin... It Takes A Trudeau To Help Explain Watergate... Newsdump Alert: President Trump Endorses Katie Britt In Republican US Senate Runoff In Alabama Donald Trump getting in bed with Mitch McConnell this weekend not to...

Steve Cortes, a conservative news personality and past adviser to former President Donald Trump, was one of media’s first prominent voices to speak in favor of the “America First” movement. An advocate for what he describes as “economic nationalism” and “cultural conservatism,” Cortes actively supports the candidacies of individuals who subscribe to Trump’s rebranded style of Republican orthodoxy. Two of the most recent candidates Cortes has aligned himself with during the 2022 GOP primary election cycle are Arizona senatorial hopeful Blake Masters and Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee J.D. Vance, both of whom hold the 45th president’s endorsement. Like Cortes,...

When Katie Britt announced her run for Senate in Alabama last June, private polling pegged her name recognition at 8% and political support among Republican voters at just 4%. Nearly one year later, Britt finished first, with 44.75%, in Tuesday’s primary and is favored to defeat Rep. Mo Brooks in a June 21 runoff. Runoffs are not always hospitable to establishment-backed candidates who win round one but fall short of 50%. Brooks weathered losing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement in March, and he enters the runoff with some momentum. But Britt’s performance in the primary was so sweeping that Alabama...

@IAPolls2022 BREAKING: Mo Brooks will advance to a runoff scheduled for June 21st to face Katie Britt in an election to decide the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama: @DecisionDeskHQ

According to two separate surveys conducted in early May, the Alabama U.S. Senate Republican primary has a new leader, former Business Council of Alabama CEO and president Katie Britt. One poll commissioned by the Alabama Forestry PAC and conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, a survey of 500 respondents conducted May 2 through May 5, showed Britt up over Durant and Brooks by double-digits. Another survey obtained by Breitbart News, conducted by the Moore Information Group, a pollster used by Republicans across the country, was conducted May 2 through May 5 and also showed Britt out front but with Durant...

Retired Army pilot and ex-Huntsville businessman Mike Durant -- surging in the polls in the Republican primary for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat -- said he was “not surprised” when former President Donald Trump rescinded his endorsement Wednesday of Rep. Mo Brooks. Durant said Trump shared with him that he was “frustrated” with Brooks’ performance in the race after he met the ex-president Monday. “I’m not surprised, I was with the president on Monday and he shared with me personally how frustrated he was with him. I told him that I am the clear America first candidate in this race,” Durant...

Republicans are growing increasingly bold in their support for a handful of candidates snubbed by former President Trump in hotly contested GOP primaries. While Trump remains the most coveted endorser among Republicans, his picks in some races have stirred concern and frustration within some corners of the GOP, with some Republicans questioning whether the former president is picking the strongest candidates in potentially competitive races. It’s a trend that’s not limited to Trump’s Republican critics. His former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, recently headlined a fundraiser for Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who is facing a Trump-backed primary challenge...