GOP super PAC targets Mo Brooks for past anti-Trump remarks

A top GOP super PAC with ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is targeting Rep. Mo BrooksMorris (Mo) Jackson BrooksOvernight Defense: Senate confirms US military’s first African American service chief | Navy to ban display of Confederate flags | GOP lawmakers urge Trump not to cut troops in Germany Republicans urge Trump to reject slashing US troop presence in Germany Conservative lawmakers press Trump to suspend guest worker programs for a year MORE (R-Ala.) in the Senate GOP primary race in Alabama.

The Senate Leadership Fund released an ad Wednesday going after Brooks ahead of the August primary to fill the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsMcCabe, Rosenstein spar over Russia probe Rosenstein takes fire from Republicans in heated testimony Rosenstein defends Mueller appointment, role on surveillance warrants MORE.

The ad splices together clips of Brooks speaking out about then-GOP presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE while attempting to tie him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.).

“Mo Brooks attacked President Trump, siding with them — not Alabama conservatives,” a narrator says in the ad, which portrays Brooks alongside the Democratic figures.

The Republican lawmaker repeatedly attacked Trump during the GOP primary, saying he couldn’t be trusted and calling him a “serial adulterer.”

Since Trump won the election, Brooks has become a vocal supporter of the president.

On Monday, Brooks released a new Senate campaign ad that said if he is elected, he will fight to have Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall funded, even if that means a government shutdown.

But his past criticisms of Trump could pose a problem for him in the race in Alabama, a state which Trump won handily in last year’s presidential election.

The GOP super PAC ad, titled “Trust,” is part of the group’s $2.5 million ad campaign in Alabama’s upcoming special election.

Steven Law, the head of the Senate Leadership Fund, said the special election will be a “test” to see if an “anti-Trump” candidate can win.

“The Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Alabama will be the first test to see whether someone as stridently anti-Trump as Mo Brooks can survive in a state that is so overwhelmingly supportive of the President,” Law said in a statement.

The primary is scheduled for Aug. 15, and it will be followed by a runoff in late September and a general election in December.

Brooks is one of several candidates in the primary challenging Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed to the seat earlier this year by then-Gov. Robert Bentley (R).

A Brooks campaign spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment.

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