WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks offered to withdraw from a Republican Senate primary Wednesday if all other GOP candidates also drop out — an effort Brooks said would pave the way for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be the party's Senate nominee this fall.
Brooks, a Sessions ally, said he cannot remain silent about the treatment Sessions is receiving from President Donald Trump, who has scorned Sessions as "very weak" and dangled the possibility that he will fire the former Alabama senator as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
While he supports Trump's polices, the president's "public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama, who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins," Brooks said.
"I stand with Jeff Sessions," Brooks added.
It's unlikely the other candidates, including Sen.
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