Hearn wins Oklahoma primary in lopsided money race

Congressman Kevin Hern won Republican primary The election in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District ended in a one-sided fundraising battle, according to the Associated Press.

The two major camps vying for the seat are Oklahoma Republican Congressman Kevin Hearn, who has held the seat for six years, and Paul Royce, whose campaign platform declares itself to be “anti-Trump,” including plans to make “significant cuts” to the budgets of both parties. social Security and health insurance.

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Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Oklahoma (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hern has always been Former President Donald Trump He was nominated for Speaker of the House last January in protest of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. The incumbent expressed interest in running for the speakership in October but later withdrew from the race. He announced his desire to run for the nomination again after Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, dropped out of the race.

The race was one of the most competitive in the nation’s primary races, with Hearn raising nearly $1.6 million, according to the Federal Election Commission. Meanwhile, Royce has not filed any campaign finance disclosures with the FEC.

Members of the House of Representatives vote to elect the Speaker for October 2023. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Hearn will now advance to the November general election, where he will run against Evelyn Rogers, who ran for the seat as an independent in previous elections but is running as a Democrat in 2024, and former FBI agent Dennis Baker.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) speaks to reporters as he leaves the House Republican Candidate Forum, where members running for Speaker of the House of Representatives laid out their platforms at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2023. (Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District has been solidly Republican for decades, with former Rep. James R. Jones being the last Democrat to win the seat in 1984.