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Monday 14 august 2017

Alabama’s U.S. Senate race all about Trump love, swamp hate

try voted for change with delivered an endorsement blitz on behalf of Strange
the election of Trump, but of Strange one week be- as it seeks to beat back
there are people in Wash- fore voters head to the GOP insurgents. Ever since
ington D.C. who don’t polls, on Tuesday. a series of messy primaries
want it. “The swamp!” “Senator Luther Strange led to losing general elec-
someone interjected from has done a great job rep- tion Senate races in 2010
the crowd. resenting the people of the and 2012, Republicans led
In the Alabama race for Great State of Alabama. by McConnell of Kentucky
Attorney General Jeff Ses- He has my complete and have worked aggressive-
sions’ former Senate seat, total endorsement!” Trump ly to defeat challengers
the Republican slugfest tweeted Tuesday night. deemed as fringe.
primary is about love of The Strange campaign But that backing has be-
all things Trump — with within hours had radio and come a major rallying cry
In this March 22, 2017, file photo, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala. is inter- contenders competing to digital ads touting the en- for Strange’s challengers.
viewed on Capitol Hill in Washington. woo Trump voters — and dorsement in the closing Brooks has labeled him
Associated Press disdain of the so-called days of the campaign in a as the candidates of the
By KIM CHANDLER, farmer’s market and said swamp of Washington D.C. state that overwhelmingly “swamp critters.”
PIKE ROAD, Ala. (AP) — On he is the true conservative But Sen. Luther Strange, supported Trump in 2016. “The principled conser-
a humid afternoon, U.S. to help enact the agenda who was appointed to the “I think it’s going to make vatives, my constituents,
Rep. Mo Brooks, on his cam- of President Donald Trump. position in February, last the difference. That’s what I they’re excited about tell-
paign bus named the Drain Former Alabama Chief Jus- week was handed what told the President,” Strange ing Mitch McConnell that
the Swamp Express, pulled tice Roy Moore in his own could be his trump card in said. Strange said the pres- we don’t like him butt-
into a central Alabama stump stop said the coun- what’s become a conten- ident offered his support in ing into the state of Ala-
tious GOP civil war. Trump a Tuesday phone call and bama and we want dif-
asked what he could do. “I ferent leadership and we
said, well a tweet would be want support for President
great,” Strange said. Trump’s agenda,” Brooks
Despite national plummets said at one campaign
in his approval ratings, stop. “We’ve got people
Trump remains popular up there that don’t want
among Republican voters change despite the fact in
in the Deep South state November 2016 the peo-
where Trump resoundingly ple of this country voted for
defeated Hillary Clinton. change,” Moore said.
“The average working man Moore was twice removed
out here in America, we from duties as chief justice
do not give one damn bit for defying courts on gay
about the Russia situation,” marriage and the public
John Lake, who works at a display of the Ten Com-
Mobile-area shipyard, said mandments. He is particu-
during a Brooks campaign larly considered a tough
stop earlier this summer. competitor for Strange in
“We’re thinking about how the GOP primary because
we are going to pay our of his heavy support from
bills, how are we going to evangelical voters.
retire.” The heated Republican
280 2333 While Strange is boosted primary will head into a

Orange Plaza by Trump’s endorsement, September runoff unless a
single candidate tops 50
he could also be dragged
Italiëstraat 50 down by accusations of his percent of the vote in the
first round of balloting on
ties to establishment Re-
publicans. Tuesday.
Strange is backed by a su- Becky Gerritson, the head
per political action com- of the one the state’s
mittee tied to Majority most active tea party
Leader Mitch McConnell. groups, said Republicans
The PAC has pumped mil- in her area don’t care for
lions into an advertisement McConnell.q