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AUBURN, Ala. -- Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby has become a bitter high-dollar contest with the three strongest contenders jockeying for the nomination. The leading candidates are U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks who won — and then lost — former President Donald Trump’s backing in the race; Katie Boyd Britt, the former leader of Business Council of Alabama and Shelby’s former chief of staff; and Mike Durant, an aerospace company owner best known as the helicopter pilot whose capture during a U.S. military mission in Somalia was chronicled in the...

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...

Mike Durant refuses to debate Mo Brooks and Katy Britt for the US Senate election in Alabama.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has switched his endorsement in the Alabama U.S. Senate race to Michael Durant, dealing a blow to the reeling Mo Brooks campaign. Flynn, who received a presidential pardon to avoid jail time and advocated for a military coup to overturn the 2020 presidential election, had originally endorsed Brooks last June. At the time, Flynn was in Birmingham for a speaking engagement paid for by the Jefferson County Republican Club. Now, though, Flynn has rethought his endorsement and determined that “Alabama doesn’t need another career politician.” Instead, Flynn said in a written statement that Durant is...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant recently met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., his campaign confirmed with Yellowhammer News on Wednesday. While noting that the two met on Monday, the Durant campaign would not comment further on the specifics of the meeting. The meeting confirmation comes on the heels of Trump releasing a statement announcing that he had rescinded his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) Wednesday morning. The former president pointed to polling which showed that Brooks’ support among Republican voters had taken a significant downturn. A series of recently-conducted...

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 Katie Britt and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama are distancing themselves from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell after McConnell suggested there were no problems with the 2020 election. Britt and Brooks are competing, along with “Black Hawn Down” veteran Mike Durant, for the U.S. Senate seat that retiring Sen. Richard Shelby will leave open later this year. After South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds on Sunday dismissed election complaints and claimed the 2020 election “was fair, as fair as we have seen,” McConnell backed Rounds’ comments on Tuesday, telling CNN, “I think Sen. Rounds told the truth about what...

"I went to Fort Hood last Saturday and sold a thousand books in one day," Mike Durant says. Fort Hood, Huntsville, New York; no matter where he goes these days, thousands of people are eager to read more about Mike Durant's true story. Caleb Green, an ROTC student from the University of Alabama was one of many who braved long lines at a recent book signing for a meet and greet with Durant. "Mike Durant to me and in my opinion is a national hero. My father and I both have a lot of respect for him. He's really the...