On Monday morning, Trump endorsed Strange, 64. In a tweet, he said the senator “is strong on Border & Wall, the military, tax cuts & law enforcement.”
Since he took office, Strange has voted in line with Trump’s views about 92 percent of the time, according to RealClearPolitics.
Strange, who stands at an imposing 6-foot-9-inches tall, previously spent six years as Alabama’s attorney general. Before that, he was a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also prefers Strange in the race. Trump endorsed the Alabama incumbent even as tensions between him and McConnell increase.
Moore, 70, got suspended from his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court last year. He told judges to uphold Alabama’s law against same-sex marriage despite the Supreme Court legalizing it nationwide.
He later resigned to seek the Senate seat.
Moore has cast himself as an anti-establishment candidate and touted policy positions similar to Trump’s.
In a recent AL.com column, he highlighted as his priorities “rebuild[ing] our military,” “securing the border,” cutting taxes and regulations and checking “activist judges.”
Morris Brooks Jr., 63, first got elected to the House in 2010. As a staunch fiscal conservative, Brooks has backed efforts to chop federal spending.
He joined the House Freedom Caucus earlier this year in initially opposing the GOP plan to replace Obamacare, saying it did not go far enough to dismantle the law. Brooks eventually supported it after the bill got amended.
During the campaign, he has repeatedly slammed McConnell and Strange, contending they represent embedded Washington interests. He has called McConnell the “swamp king,” a reference to Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp.”