Usually, that's the work of the RINOs behind the scenes when they know they can't win, to encourage another conservative and even pad their coffers with donations to challenge another popular conservative and weakening that candidate prior to the General Election to pick them off due to lack of proper funding to buy good ads through the campaign and lose out to the dimocRAT!
The top two GOP candidates got 241,500 votes (approx.) while all the Democrat candidates (3) got 161,500 votes (approx.). You can tell from these numbers that the Democrats are going to get nowhere in the general election.
Oh, and the Tea Party candidate (also a GOP candidate and third down the list in votes) got 12,700 votes for less than 5%!!
Lankford was Boehner’s butt boy. Don’t expect much out of him. Ticks me off that Shannon lost. I hope he runs for something else. Now we’re stuck with mealy-mouthed Lankford for who knows how long.
Yeah, I know he says all the right things, but so do a lot of other squidgy moderates when it’s time to campaign.
Oh and one more thing ... there were SEVEN GOP candidates running ... but the top two candidates got 81.7% of the GOP vote. All those others running, including the Tea Party candidate - got absolutely NOWHERE, as if they never even existed on the ballot.
Sometimes conservatives who are bent on destroying this or that flawed figure end up constructing this kind of circular firing squad.