Appearing on the Newsmax program “American Agenda,” Trump heaped praise on Brooks when host Heather Childers brought his name up as a possible candidate for endorsement.
“Mo Brooks in Alabama has done a spectacular job fighting for election integrity,” Trump said. “He saw the crooked election, what happened. He was willing to speak up. He’s a strong guy, a tough guy, he loves his state.
I mean, I could see going that way. You have other really good people. They are really good people. But Mo is right out there on the front lines and he was fighting for election integrity. He saw what happened with the 2020 presidential election. It was rigged and stolen and he saw that. And others saw that, too.”
There is no evidence of widespread election fraud in the presidential election.
In the interview, Trump said he would be making endorsements in the 2022 election cycle in several states.
Brooks, a Republican from Huntsville in his sixth term in Congress, is running for the open Senate seat created by the retirement of Sen. Richard Shelby.
Brooks and Montgomery businesswoman Lynda Blanchard are the only announced candidates in the race so far. Blanchard served as ambassador to Slovenia – the home of former First Lady Melania Trump – during the Trump administration.
Both Brooks and Blanchard have closely aligned themselves with Trump in kicking off their campaigns. Former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller attended Brooks’ campaign announcement while Blanchard held a fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in south Florida last month, which included a photo op with the former president.
Brooks was the first member of Congress to publicly announce in December that he would contest the presidential election results when they came before Congress on Jan. 6 – spearheading a last-ditch effort to overturn the results of the election that ushered Joe Biden into the White House.