{"id":1530850,"date":"2022-06-28T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530850"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:02:42","slug":"runoff-expected-in-oklahomas-crowded-gop-us-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/runoff-expected-in-oklahomas-crowded-gop-us-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Runoff Expected in Oklahoma\u2019s Crowded GOP US Senate Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frunoff-expected-in-oklahomas-crowded-gop-us-senate-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530850&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If there is one race to illustrate why a runoff exists in some states, it\u2019s the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate special election in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Ten GOP candidates are vying to replace 87-year-old Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, who took office in 1994 and was elected to a fifth term in 2020 before announcing in February 2022 that he would retire, effective January 3, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Kendra Horn, who represented Oklahoma\u2019s 5th Congressional District from 2019 to 2020, is unopposed in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) is the heavily funded frontrunner, comfortably leading in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are heavily favored to prevail in the general election, making the GOP primary especially significant since the winners are virtually assured a victory in November.<\/p>\n<p>If no Republican candidate surpasses 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election between the two top vote-getters will take place on August 23, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While Mullin is expected to lead the crowd when results are announced on June 28, it is less clear who will finish second and advance to a runoff, if Mullin finishes first and does not eclipse the 50 percent mark.<\/p>\n<p>A poll jointly conducted by Oklahoma City\u2019s KWTV News 9 and Tulsa\u2019s KOTV News on 6 released on June 23 indicated that Mullin stands in first with 38.7 percent followed by top contender and former Oklahoma speaker of the house T.W. Shannon at 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Nathan Dahm is in third with 8.1 percent followed by Luke Holland (5 percent), Scott Pruitt (2.4 percent), Alex Gray (1.8 percent), and Dr. Randy Grellner (1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll, 30 percent of the likely Republican primary voters questioned are undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Mullin is a former professional mixed martial arts fighter, and the owner of Mullin Plumbing and Mullin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one race to illustrate why a runoff exists in some states, it\u2019s the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate special election in Oklahoma. Ten GOP candidates are vying to replace 87-year-old Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, who took office in 1994 and was elected to a fifth term in 2020 before announcing in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}