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Today's show, we got a scoop on the GOP Senate primary in Alabama.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

As Representative Mo Brooks's Trump-endors Senate campaign, Sputters, and the Alabama GOP descends into chaos,

Senator Richard Shelby is making his move.

Politico's Burgess Everett and Natalie Allison Scoop that Shelby is, quote,

preparing to pour as much as $6 million into the race by transferring his campaign coffers into a super PAC supporting Katie Britt,

his former aide who was running for the Senate seat. Shelby, who has $10 million in his campaign coffers into a super pack supporting Katie Britt, his former aide who was running for the Senate seat.

Shelby, who has $10 million in his campaign account and more than $6 million in his separate leadership packs,

I'm going to give it all away sooner or later. I'm going to help her, transfer it to a super pack.

He added that Britt is doing well right now. Mo Brooks is dropping. You see that.

Shelby's infusion of money could reshape the race, which now has multiple candidates and super PACs firing at each other. But currently is locked in a three-way battle with the stumbling Brooks and surging army veteran Mike Durant. Brooks's flagging campaign and his opponent's rise have shocked Senate Republicans, many of whom thought the pugnacious Donald Trump accolite was the

odds-on favorite as soon as he secured the former president's endorsement back in April.

But Shelby's backing of Brit after 43 years of Congress, many spent showering Alabama with

federal money, along with Durant's surprisingly strong campaign, has put Brooks on shaky footing.

Unless one of the candidates clears 50% in the May primary, there'll be a runoff. And eliminating Brooks and leaving the race to Durant and Brit would amount to a, quote, no loose proposition for Republicans, said Senator John Cornyn, who serves on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's leadership plan. Cornyn had this to say, quote, people know what Brooks was like in the House. And I think there's a general desire to have people that will be constructive and that we can work with.

So that's my view, and that's probably the view of most of the conference.

Former President Donald Trump publicly aired his grievances against Brooks this week as a kick in the pants for the Senate hopeful, or a, quote, gut check as a person close to Trump called it.

This person said that Trump is not rushing to rescind his endorsement for books,

which would make for a slippery slope for other Trump endorses with lagging performances.

Just days ahead of Judge Katanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week,

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