Why is my character image/rectangle not rotating towards mouse pointer?

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import pygame
import os
import math
import sys

pygame.init()

WIDTH = 900
HEIGHT = 660
FPS = 60
VEL = 2`your text`
CHARACTER_WIDTH = 50
CHARACTER_HEIGHT = 50

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("STRANDED LOST")

BACKGROUND = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('textures', 'background.png'))
BACKGROUND = pygame.transform.scale(BACKGROUND, (WIDTH, HEIGHT))
CHARACTER = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('textures', 'character.png'))
CHARACTER = pygame.transform.scale(
CHARACTER, (CHARACTER_WIDTH, CHARACTER_HEIGHT))
CROSSHAIR = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('textures', 'crosshair.png'))
CROSSHAIR = pygame.transform.scale(CROSSHAIR, (25, 25))

playerCharacter = pygame.Rect(
WIDTH // 2, HEIGHT // 2, CHARACTER_WIDTH, CHARACTER_HEIGHT)

pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)

def draw_window(playerCharacter, crosshair_pos):
screen.blit(BACKGROUND, (0, 0))
screen.blit(CROSSHAIR, crosshair_pos)
screen.blit(CHARACTER, playerCharacter)

def game():

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    running = True
    while running:
    
        # framerate
        clock.tick(FPS)
    
        # handle events
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                running = False
    
        # key control
        keys_pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()
        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_a]:  # LEFT
            playerCharacter.x -= VEL
    
        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_d]:  # RIGHT
            playerCharacter.x += VEL
    
        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_w]:  # UP
            playerCharacter.y -= VEL
    
        if keys_pressed[pygame.K_s]:  # DOWN
            playerCharacter.y += VEL
    
        # get mouse position
        mouse_pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
    
        # crosshair positionm
        crosshair_pos = (mouse_pos[0] - CROSSHAIR.get_width() / 2,
                         mouse_pos[1] - CROSSHAIR.get_height() / 2)
    
        # character rotation
        angle = math.atan2(
            mouse_pos[1] - (playerCharacter[1]+32), mouse_pos[0] - (playerCharacter[0]+26))
        rotate = pygame.transform.rotate(CHARACTER, 360 - angle * 57.29)
        playerposnew = (playerCharacter[0] - rotate.get_rect().width/2,
                        playerCharacter[1] - rotate.get_rect().height/2)
        screen.blit(rotate, playerposnew)
    
        draw_window(playerCharacter, crosshair_pos)
        pygame.display.update()
    
    pygame.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
game()

Please help me understand why my character is not rotating towards my mouse pointer. I have tried different equations to calculate the angle, however I think that the problem is with when the character is being drawn also I don't understand whether the character image would rotate if the rectangle is rotate and the image is being drawn onto it or I need to draw a rotating image onto a rectangle?

I tried to make my CHARACTER image and rectangle rotate towards my mouse pointer, I've been trying for hours and nothing works, please help me :)

Why is my character image/rectangle not rotating towards mouse pointer?

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