All of the ad’s quotes come from an MSNBC interview conducted just days before the Super Tuesday primaries — when Trump solidly won Alabama. At the time, the segment made news because Brooks attacked Trump as an adulterer.

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“I think what you’re going to see 12 to 18 months from now is a lot of people who have supported Donald Trump, they’re going to regret having done so, 12 to 18 months, but right now they’re enamored with the personality,” said Brooks. “They’re enamored with a projection of Donald Trump when they really should be looking at what he’s going to do if he becomes President of the United States.”

Brooks’s early skepticism of Trump is also coming under scrutiny by the “Need to Know Network,” a project of America Rising, a Republican opposition research group. On Tuesday, NTKN uploaded an October radio interview with Brooks, conducted after the release of a hot mic “Access Hollywood” tape that found Trump boasting about sexual assault, in which the congressman repeatedly refused to say that he’d vote for Trump.

“Hillary Clinton is worse than Donald Trump, and I’m going to vote for all the Republicans on the ballot,” Brooks said, without mentioning Trump.

Brooks is challenging Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in the Aug. 15 primary, and the party expects to hold the Alabama seat without a serious Democratic challenge. But where Strange has been a loyal member of the GOP’s majority, Brooks has carved out a House role as an uncompromising conservative — a Freedom Caucus member who initially opposed the American Health Care Act. (He voted for it after being lobbied by Trump.)

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His comments last year about Trump resemble some by Republican incumbents, such as Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), whom the Senate Leadership Fund is expected to back for reelection. And with the exception of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose former Senate seat is now held by Strange, Alabama’s delegation to Congress voiced plenty of reservations about Trump.