Oklahoma GOP Turns on Senator for Not Kissing T(he)rump Enough
Jackson Lahmeyer is a 29-year old pastor and political unknown from Tulsa who believes he meets the most important qualification for political service in today’s Republican Party: fealty to Donald Trump.
Lahmeyer also believes Trump should be reinstated as president, wants every state subjected to a full 2020 election audit, and thinks the F.B.I. and “antifa” pushed into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
His primary campaign against Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has been blessed by a pair of powerful figures from the MAGA fringe—former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and conspiracy-peddling lawyer Lin Wood—and, as of last weekend, the new chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, John Bennett, a former legislator who once notably called for Hillary Clinton’s execution by firing squad.
The stunning endorsement provided a veneer of legitimacy, and a shot in the arm, to an obscure MAGA movement striver who’d been toiling away in a quixotic campaign until now. Lankford, a political fixture in Oklahoma, called Bennett’s move “unheard of,” which is correct—state party chairs hardly ever get involved in primaries. And Lahmeyer agreed with his foe’s assessment. Gleefully.
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