POLITICS: “GOP Rep. Mo Brooks announced Monday [5-15-17] morning that he will run in Alabama’s special Senate election later this year.
Brooks confirmed his campaign in an interview with Dale Jackson on WVNN, a radio station in Huntsville. His entry adds another challenger to the field against Sen. Luther Strange, a Republican who was appointed to the Senate by former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley after then-Sen. Jeff Sessions was appointed U.S. attorney general. Strange is running to keep the seat…
Brooks is one of the heavyweight names who have been bandied around as possible Senate candidates, besides Strange, Marsh, and Moore. Brooks’ route, according to Alabama political operatives, is to allow Strange and Marsh to duke it out and then make it into a runoff against Moore. In that situation, Brooks would appeal to former supporters of every other candidate as the preferable candidate to Moore, who has a significant following in the state but is still viewed skeptically nationally.”
-Daniel Strauss, “Rep. Mo Brooks announces Alabama Senate run,” Politico, May 15, 2017 8:20am