Former President Donald J. Trump retracted his endorsement of Representative Mo Brooks’s bid for Senate in Alabama on Wednesday, abandoning one of his staunchest allies after months of simmering frustration and as polls showed Mr. Brooks falling behind in the state’s Republican primary.

In a sign of Mr. Trump’s continued focus on the 2020 election, he cited Mr. Brooks’s remarks at a rally last summer urging voters to move on from Mr. Trump’s defeat.

“When I heard his statement, I said, ‘Mo, you just blew the election, and there’s nothing you can do about it,’” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Wednesday. “Very sad but, since he decided to go in another direction, so have I.”

Mr. Trump said he would endorse another candidate in the near future. He has privately met with both of the other leading candidates: Katie Britt, a former top aide to Senator Richard Shelby, and Mike Durant, who was in one of the Black Hawk helicopters that were shot down in Somalia in 1993. Mr. Durant was in Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with Mr. Trump this week, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting.

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