MAGA-Disappointment: Mo Brooks Delivers His Concession Speech

By Mark Gruber | Wednesday, 22 June 2022 10:45 PM
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MAGA-Disappointment: Mo Brooks Delivers His Concession Speech

Rep. Mo Brooks gave an angry, painful concession speech after media outlets predicted Katie Britt the winner of the runoff election to decide Alabama’s Republican Senate nominee, saying his loss was a huge victory for the Democrats.

“It’s always appropriate to congratulate the winners, and some of these winners might be a little bit unexpected, but I’d be remiss if I did not congratulate the Alabama Democratic Party for helping to ensure that the Democratic nominee in the Republican primary won,” Brooks said Tuesday evening during a prepared speech to supporters who gathered with the congressman for an election night party at a Huntsville gun range.

“Congratulations to the Democrats. They now have two nominees in the general election,” Brooks added. “Another group I’d be remiss if I did not congratulate are special interest groups generally and more specifically the special interest groups that support open borders and cheap foreign labor. They worked hard for their values.”

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Britt was leading Brooks 65% to 35% with more than 60% of precincts reporting and winning all 67 counties in the state in what developed as a low-turnout runoff triggered when Britt won the May 24 GOP primary but fell just short of the required 50% of the vote. Brooks never congratulated Britt during his speech, though the congressman’s spokesman confirmed to the Washington Examiner that he did call Britt and concede the election.

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Brooks’s speech, which included decades of public service in the Alabama legislature and in Congress, was typical for the congressman — aggressive, unapologetic, and disparaging of his political opponents. Britt was favored to cruise to victory in the runoff for weeks. But the congressman, signaling he had no intention of asking for GOP unity ahead of the midterm elections, called Britt a “RINO,” or a "Republican in name only," in comments to reporters ahead of his address.

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“Is Britt a RINO?” a reporter asked.

“Absolutely,” Brooks said. “Either that or a Democrat.”

During his election night screed, Brooks took parting shots at his party, his country, and Congress, where he has served since 2011, saying, "The Republican Party of Alabama lost in a variety of different ways,” before going on to say that “America quite clearly lost” and adding, finally, that Capitol Hill “is a really depressing place to work.”

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Brooks did not slam former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Brooks last June and then yanked his support for the congressman this past March.

For many of the approximately 150 supporters who joined Brooks on election night, his speech was a hit. “I loved it,” Vicki Bryant said. “He showed a lot of spirit.”

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