Ms. Britt, a lawyer and former chief of staff to Senator Richard Selby, recently announced her campaign to fill the vacancy left by her retired former boss. Mr. Trump had already backed her rival, spokesman Mo Brooks – but the couple hoped to cast some doubt on Mr. Trump, according to four people familiar with the meeting. As the couple greeted Mr. Trump, Mrs. Britt’s husband, Wesley Britt – a wealthy retired NFL player – told the former president that he had once played for the New England Patriots. “The only time you met me, I think I was wrapped in a towel in the Patriots’ locker room,” Britt is said to have said to Trump, who found it hilarious and replied that Robert K. Kraft, the billionaire owner of the team, “I like it very much.” Since then, Ms. Britt has been positioned as a formidable competitor with clever political skills who has persistently tried to convince Mr. Trump that he deserved his support. In March, Mr. Trump gave Britt half of what he wanted, withdrawing his support for Mr. Brooks – at that point far behind in the polls – because, as he said, the far-right MP had “woken up”. Later this month, with Ms Britt clearly well on her way to supremacy, the former president backed her, ostensibly in a bid to break his record of support. Ten months after her brief conversation with Mr. Trump last August, Ms. Britt won the Republican primary for the Alabama Senate on Tuesday, ending a tough campaign for her party’s candidacy against Mr. Trump. Brooks. In a state with deep-rooted conservative tendencies, it is certain to win the November general election. Ms. Britt is also one step closer to writing history as the first woman in Alabama to be elected to the Senate. Her Democratic opponent is a pastor, Will Boyd, who has run unsuccessfully for the Senate, House and Vice-Chancellor. Shortly after the polls closed on Tuesday, Mr Selby, who has known Ms. Britt since the days she was in office, said he was very happy for her. “He is a great person – he has the mind, the momentum and the compassion,” he said. Ms. Britt, 40, is seen as part of a younger generation of pro-Trump Republicans, and her husband Trump’s plaques were seen by those familiar with the meeting as an insightful move that proved necessary for her candidacy. Ms Britt ran in the by-elections with little recognition and a good chance of winning over Mr Brooks, who had more than a decade of experience in Parliament and won the support of Mr Trump after stirring up the crowd at the former president’s rally before attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But Mr. Trump canceled his support for Mr. Brooks in March as Mr. Brooks struggled to gain traction under an avalanche of attacking ads and criticism of his decision to urge the public at a Trump rally to leave behind “Katie Britt, on the other hand, is a fearless American warrior,” Trump said in a statement this month as he endorsed Ms. Britt. The move did not completely eliminate Mr. Brooks, who finished in second place in the May 24 primary in Alabama, garnering 29 percent of the vote. Ms. Britt garnered 45 percent, less than the majority she would have avoided in the second round between the top two voters. Ms. Britt ran as the “Alabama First” candidate, playing with Mr. Trump’s “America First” campaign slogan and focusing on her Christian faith, hardline border policies, and ties to the business community. As an aide to Mr. Shelby, one of the top members of the Senate, he worked on some of his signature issues, such as a sweeping Republican tax cut package in 2017, confirmation by Conservative judges and pushing for a border wall along the USA. – Border with Mexico. He recently served as head of the Alabama Business Council, a powerful lobby group, and led a “Keep Alabama Open” campaign in November 2020 against the coronavirus pandemic restrictions that required non-core businesses to shut down or restrict services. It also opened up council resources, usually for paying members, to all small businesses in the midst of a health crisis. In politics, Ms. Britt and Mr. Brooks had ideological differences: She represented a more aggressive arch conservative firm as a founding member of the Freedom Parliamentary Group, while Ms. Britt, like Selby, was considered more economically focused. development. But in rhetorical terms, it echoed the far-right rhetoric that has become commonplace messages in the Republican Party. “When I look at what is happening in Washington, I do not recognize our country,” Britt said in a video introducing herself to voters. “The left is attacking our religious freedoms and promoting a socialist agenda. “In Joe Biden’s America, people can make more money by staying home than they can earn at work.” The campaigns and supporters of Ms. Britt, Mr. Brooks, and a third leading competitor in the race, Mike Durant, a former Army pilot, have spent millions of dollars on negative publicity. Mr. Brooks and his supporters have sought to portray Ms. Britt as a lobbyist and RINO – a welcome insult to Trump supporters by politicians who believe they are Republicans by name only. He reacted with attacks portraying Mr. Brooks as a career politician. It also helped that Mr. Brooks did poorly at Mr. Trump’s rally in Alabama last August, shortly after the start of Ms. Britt’s quiet campaign to lure the former president to her goal. What began as an enthusiastic response to Mr. Brooks that night turned to disapproval when he urged attendees to leave the 2020 presidential election behind and focus on 2022 and 2024. Mr. Trump called him back on stage for a second appearance, calling him “the fearless warrior for your sacred right to vote.” Later, when the former president withdrew his support for Mr. Brooks, he said that the MP had made a “horrible mistake” with his comments at that fatal rally.
