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'Black Hawk Down' pilot Mike Durant aims for Alabama Senate seat, lauds American principles over liberal media
Fox News
Former U.S. Army Special Operations aviator and Alabama Senate candidate Mike Durant has set his sights on Alabama's opening Senate seat following the retirement of Sen. Richard Shelby at the end of his term. Durant has touted his military and small business owner experience in stating his case to Alabamians.
Durant expressed his desire for America to hold on to the founding principles that made it great, rather than cave to pressure from the liberal media seeking to tear them all apart in their efforts to appease Big Tech companies.
"There's a frustration level that is arguably at its highest point now with the current administration, the kind of decisions that are being made. And if I had to point to a single event that just put me over the top, it's probably the way the withdrawal from Afghanistan was handled," Durant said when asked why he decided to jump into the race after his now-opponents, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., and businesswoman Katie Britt, had already been campaigning for months.