The only possible way to split the vote for Republicans in Oklahoma is for a conservative to run as an independent. A friend of mine did just that in 2010 when incidentally Langford was the Republican nominee for Congress for the first time.
Independents don’t even have primaries but go straight to the general election .
Anyway the Republican Party feared he would split the vote giving the win to the Democrat and talked my friend into dropping out.
My family in Oklahoma think lankford is a joke. Not all that bright, spends more time touting his religious affiliations and little time actually working for the people of his state. If the challenger mounts a credible campaign my family there says lankford could be gone.