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Posted on 06/17/2026 5:25:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
A President Trump-backed candidate in Oklahoma is suddenly out of the race.
Jackson Lahmeyer, the pastor who founded Pastors for Trump, suspended his campaign for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District just one day after advancing to a Republican runoff.
That is a very fast reversal.
On Tuesday night, Lahmeyer was still being presented as the Trump-backed candidate moving forward. By Wednesday, President Trump was publicly moving his support to Mark Tedford.
President Trump’s endorsement switch is here:
The national rundown from CBS News ties together the sudden timing.
Lahmeyer had just advanced to a runoff, but his campaign was already facing fallout over alleged text messages published earlier in the week. CBS also noted that it had not independently verified the messages.
Lahmeyer acknowledged that he had crossed a boundary through text messaging, then announced he was suspending the campaign and did not want to become a distraction to his family, church, or Oklahoma voters.
The local election context from Tulsa Flyer captures the whiplash.
Tedford and Lahmeyer were headed toward a GOP runoff after Tuesday’s special primary, but Lahmeyer’s withdrawal appears to clear the Republican lane for Tedford in the deep-red Tulsa-area district.
America First Insight tracked the practical effect of the move this way:
Oklahoma-focused coverage from NonDoc also framed the story as a post-primary endorsement flip.
The timing matters because the district is open after former Rep. Kevin Hern launched a Senate bid, making the Republican nomination the central prize in a heavily red seat.
For Lahmeyer, it is a brutal turn from Tuesday night to Wednesday afternoon.
For Tedford, it is the kind of endorsement reset that can change a race overnight.
And for the broader GOP field, this is a reminder that a candidate can go from Trump-backed frontrunner to out of the race in less than 24 hours when the story shifts under his feet.
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So who has he been screwin’?
Whatever he may have done wrong, it sounds like he did the right thing by dropping out.
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So we have a pastor that messed around drop out. Meanwhile the democrats have a nazi, womanizing, racist sticking in the race.
I love the comparison.
Whatever he may have done wrong, it sounds like he did the right thing by dropping out.
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Absolutely!
Craaaaaap! Come on, man. Figure this sh*t out. God’s got nothing when it comes to bringing everything to light. DemonicRATS got the patent on that.
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Aaaaaaaaaannnnnndddddd it was sexting with a beauty queen.
Thanks for staining the cause of Christ, you mother flipping assclown.
Embarrassing to our side, for sure. But, it’s hardly a tragedy for Trump. The other GOP candidate will win and might harbor typical RINO grudges. But it’s not like Oklahoma will go blue in the 1st District because of this.
It’s more of an embarrassment to Christians who follow the faith devoutly.
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