Oklahoma MAGA Senate Candidate Pastor Caught Up In QAnon Red Shoe Diaries Scandal

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.wonkette.com/oklahoma-gop-senate-candidate-jackson-lahmeyer-caught-up-in-qanon-red-shoe-diaries-scandal

Republican Jackson Lahmeyer is challenging incumbent Oklahoma Senator James Lankford almost entirely on a pro-Trump platform. A few years that would've just been embarrassing, but now “pro-Trump" overtly means “pro-MAGA coup." Lankford originally planned to object to counting Arizona's electoral votes, but after Trump's mob stormed the Capitol, he changed his mind about performative sedition. He even apologized a week later to Black Oklahomans, who didn't appreciate Trump's repeated attacks on votes from predominately Black communities.

This all makes Lankford a RINO in GOP parts. Last week, state GOP chairman John Bennett declared his support for Lahmeyer's primary challenge of Lankford, who is objectively one of the most conservative members of the Senate. Lahmeyer is a Tulsa pastor with no major political experience, but his sole allegiance is to Trump, which as Rep. Elise Stefanik can confirm is all that matters these days.

"We have to have men and women of courage, men and women of integrity," Lahmeyer said in an interview with NBC News. "Unfortunately, right now in the state of Oklahoma, we're lacking that."

It requires neither courage nor integrity to bow before an anti-democratic cult of personality.

State party chairs don't normally insert themselves into primary races, especially ones involving an established incumbent. Bennett himself is a character, by which we mean he has none: He's anti-Muslim and once called for Hillary Clinton's execution. It's not a stretch that Bennett would throw his support behind Lahmeyer, who promotes the Big Lie. The Senate candidate told a conference full of QAnon loons in April that the “most important issue our nation is facing today is not the crisis at the Southern border. It is not health care reform. It is not our economy. It is election integrity. I promise you I will beat that drum so loud, we will investigate what happened in 2020 and we will hold those accountable for crimes of high treason."

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[dawg]

1. I bet he doesn't like it too much now that ...

the (red) shoe is on the other foot.

[Indykatie]

2. Dems Won't Win Oklahoma but We'll Win Other Races Because The GOP Candidate is Batsh*t Crazy

I expect many of their House candidates that win primaries will be Q adherents which will make them toxic to Independents. I fully support this outcome.

[underpants]

3. That is some ooooold school Q stuff right there

I hadn’t heard bout the red shoes thing in quite a while.

Hilarious

[lindysalsagal]

4. This extremist wedging is driving folks out of the party. Many are now independants

because of kindergarten crap like this.