James Lankford Wins Oklahoma GOP Nomination In US Senate Race
U.S. Rep. James Lankford has won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma’s open U.S. Senate seat, the Associated Press reported.
Lankford avoids a runoff and faces the Democratic nominee and an independent in November by capturing over 50 percent of the vote on Tuesday in the seven-person GOP primary field.
The seat was open because United States Sen. Tom Coburn chose to forego the last two years remaining on his term amid a cancer recurrence, according to the AP.
The state’s other senator, James Inhofe, also was on the ballot and easily grabbed his GOP primary.
Lankford, 46 -- a two-term congressman and Baptist minister from Edmond -- Lankford was up against a tough challenge from tea party-backed T.W. Shannon, who became both the youngest and the first African-American speaker of the House in 2013.
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