What Went Down In The June 21 Elections In Alabama, Virginia And Georgia

Monica, that’s funny because Britt seems very much the candidate of the future — in the sense that she’s only 40 years old — while Books has been in elected office since the early 1980s and is 68 years old.

What makes Trump’s endorsement of Britt unusual to me (other than the circumstances surrounding his unendorsement of Brooks) is just how dismissive he was of her earlier in the race. He called her an “assistant” (she was a Senate chief of staff and ran Alabama’s branch of the Chamber of Commerce) and said she was “not in any way qualified and is certainly not what our Country needs or not what Alabama wants.”

I agree, Amelia and Geoffrey. It partly seemed like a way to just back the winner. But it’s interesting to me that the only real difference between the two Republican Senate candidates is that Brooks suggested that the party should move on from the past.