Three tweets supporting Luther Strange have disappeared from Donald Trump's Twitter account (@realDonaldTrump). The White House didn't immediately respond with an explanation.

Strange on Tuesday lost the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate to firebrand jurist Roy Moore. On Wednesday morning, Trump sent a tweet praising Moore.

"Spoke to Roy Moore of Alabama last night for the first time. Sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race," said Trump's tweet.

Read the deleted tweets supporting Strange on ProPublica's website, which tracks Trump's Twitter activities.

Firebrand jurist Moore wins GOP primary runoff in Alabama In an upset likely to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Moore won by 9 percentage points over Strange, who was backed by the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.

Moore, the famed "Ten Commandments judge" twice removed from elected judicial office for defying federal courts, declared his nomination a message to Washington leaders "that their wall has been cracked and will now fall," though he excepted the president from his ire. "Together we can make America great," he said, echoing Trump's campaign slogan.

Trump quickly closed ranks behind Moore after Strange conceded Tuesday, underscoring his desire to keep the seat in Republican hands. Trump tweeted congratulations to Moore after the win. "Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race. Roy, WIN in Dec!" he tweeted.

Trump, meanwhile, must reconcile being the president who promised to "drain the swamp" yet endorsed and campaigned alongside Strange, 64, a lobbyist-turned-politician, in lieu of Moore, a 70-year-old figure steeped in anti-establishment fervor. Adding intrigue was the fact that Strange got his Senate post by being promoted from his job as Alabama attorney general by a now-convicted former governor whom Strange's office had been investigating for corruption.

Trump's choice left him opposite from his campaign architect and departed White House adviser Steve Bannon, who campaigned for Moore and introduced the nominee to his supporters Tuesday night as revelers watched returns showing Moore victorious in 63 of Alabama's 67 counties.

Bannon cast Moore's romp as a win for Trump, regardless of the president's Strange endorsement. "Who is sovereign, the people or the money? Alabama answered today," Bannon said.