Alabama GOP US Senate Race Heads to Runoff Between Britt, Brooks

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) celebrates with his family after entering a runoff election against candidate Katie Britt in Huntsville, Alabama on May 24, 2022. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Alabama’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate will come down to a runoff on June 21 after neither of the two top candidates, Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, grabbed a majority of the vote.

With 66 of Alabama’s 67 counties reporting, Britt had 45 percent of the vote to Brooks’s 29 percent. A third candidate, Michael Durant had 23 percent.