HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—A three-way race for the U.S. Senate on May 25 between Katie Britt, Rep. Mo Brooks (R), and Mike Durant ended with no candidate holding the 50 percent of the vote required to avoid a runoff.
Britt and Brooks, the two frontrunners, will now have four weeks to campaign before a runoff election decides who will head to the general election.
With 66 of Alabama’s 67 counties reporting, Britt had 45.3 percent of the vote to Brooks’s 28.6 percent.
Brooks gave a speech that celebrated his continued campaign and urged his supporters to continue their efforts.
“Two months ago, the experts declared our campaign was dead in the water,” he said to a crowd of supporters in Huntsville. “Today, just call me Lazarus, resurrected by Alabama citizens who figured out who the real MAGA conservative is.”…