Posted on 06/28/2022 5:39:40 AM PDT by cotton1706
The biggest question in Tuesday’s special election primary for a Senate seat in Oklahoma is which one of the dozen other Republicans will face Rep. Markwayne Mullin in a runoff.
Top contenders include T.W. Shannon, a former Oklahoma House speaker who ran second to Mullin in a poll published this month; Nathan Dahm, a state senator who says he’s the most conservative in a deeply conservative field; and Luke Holland, former chief of staff to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R), whose forthcoming resignation sparked the race.
Despite Mullin’s likely edge, a runoff will allow candidates to sharpen their messages after a primary that was mainly about who is the most conservative on social issues. All the leading primary candidates tout religious values and oppose abortion rights and gun control. They all espouse loyalty to former President Donald Trump, though Trump hasn’t endorsed anyone in the race.
In an Aug. 23 runoff “the landscape completely resets,” and a Mullin victory isn’t guaranteed, said Mark Yates, an Oklahoma City political consultant watching the Senate race.
Whoever wins the Republican Senate nomination is likely to take Inhofe’s seat in this deep-red state. They’ll be heavily favored in November against former Rep. Kendra Horn, who ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination. That election will run concurrently to one for the state’s other Senate seat, in which incumbent James Lankford (R) will likely cruise to re-election.
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Oklahoma voters: remember that Mullin, noted coward and RINO squish, praised the racist DC cop on January 6 for assassinating the unarmed Ashley Babbitt.
I wish Dahm would have ran against lankford.
TW Shannon could have possibly disposed of mullin in the primary.
I wish all Republican VOTERS could do something about the Republican administration’s agreement way back when, to let Republicans do the cross-over voting, like the rats get to do.
That boggles my mind!
I don’t understand what you are getting at.
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