Steve Russell checked all the boxes. War hero. Throw in motivational speaker. Would not help privatize art traffic controllers. The school is in Ok.
Russell leaned on all that you mentioned & then forgot to campaign for re-election, counting on the OK red voters to pull him over the finish line. In the meantime, Horn rounded up all her “Karen” voters and got them excited to turn out. Sometimes incumbents don’t have the power they think they have.