HUNTSVILLE — The day before primary Election Day in the Yellowhammer State, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a campaign appearance with U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) at the Huntsville International Airport and touted his endorsement of Brooks for U.S. Senate.
Cruz originally endorsed Brooks for the Alabama Senate seat in October 2021.
“I’m tempted to introduce a resolution in the Senate that says Democrats have to wear masks forever. The only problem is their masks, they’re not tight enough. We can still hear ’em.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) jokes while campaigning for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) pic.twitter.com/oXem5FRoCM
— The Recount (@therecount) May 23, 2022
Speaking to the press and a crowd of Brooks’ supporters, Cruz said he had no doubt the Alabama congressman was the most conservative candidate in the Senate race.
“I’ve worked with Mo,” Cruz said. “I worked with Mo in Congress when Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer had been fighting to undermine our country. I worked side by side with Mo, and in 2020 when we saw the challenges to our election, when we saw fraud across the country, I tell you Mo and I stood up together and fought for Congress to examine election fraud and to shine a light on it.”
The former presidential candidate emphasized that Brooks was a proven fighter for conservative principles.
“So, when it comes to who’s actually going to stand and fight,” he argued, “I don’t have to guess. I don’t have to roll the dice because I’ve been in the trenches with Mo Brooks. I know the people of Alabama can count on him.”
Asked about Trump rescinding his endorsement for Brooks, Cruz said he disagreed with the former president’s decision.
“Well listen, Donald Trump has made a lot of endorsements across the country,” he outlined. “A lot of them have won, not all of them, and on the vast majority President Trump and I have agreed and we’ve endorsed the same candidates. Sometimes we haven’t. Everyone’s got to make their own choices.”
Brooks said he believed he could still win without the Trump endorsement because he was the proven conservative in the race.
“I believe that every endorsement matters,” Brooks said, “and certainly President Trump’s endorsement is a bonus, but at the same time, the people of Alabama, they’re conservative, particularly in a Republican primary, and they’re looking at the differences in records. I have one, the other candidate do not.”
Cruz’s message to voters in Alabama was also to look at the candidates’ records, which he argued proved that Brooks was the most qualified person in this Senate race.
“My philosophy is simple,” Cruz explained, “which is I support the strongest conservative that can win, and the way that I try to make that determination is to look to their record, and I got to say for the people of Alabama, if you do this, for the voters planning on voting tomorrow, thinking about voting tomorrow, go and study the record of these candidates.”
The Texas senator reiterated that Brooks had proven himself to be a fighter on the key issues Republican voters care about in the Yellowhammer State.
“In politics, the lesson you learn, as in life, is don’t listen to a person’s words, look to their actions,” he said. “And when it comes to who’s going to stand up to secure the border, or who’s going to stand up for the second amendment, who’s going to stand up for the Constitutional rights of the people of Alabama, I don’t have to guess with Mo Brooks because I know what his record is, because he’s done it over and over again.”
Thank you so much for your endorsement, @TedCruz. Conservatives need to come together to drain the Swamp and fight Joe Biden’s radical socialist agenda. And I’m ready to fight in the Senate! pic.twitter.com/ns2V5I3eqC
— Mo Brooks (@MoBrooks) May 22, 2022
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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