After the presidential race, the two most intriguing statewide votes on the November 3 ballot will be for U.S. senator and for U.S. representative in District 5 (Oklahoma City).

Sen. Jim Inhofe, one of the most powerful conservatives in the Senate, is being challenged by Democrat Abby Broyles, a former TV reporter.

And in U.S. House District 5, Rep. Kendra Horn – the only Democrat in the Oklahoma delegation – must face State Sen. Stephanie Brice, a Republican.

Here is information on the congressional races.

U.S. Senator

Republican Jim Inhofe is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Commerce Committee and the Small Business Committee.

During his political career, Inhofe has been mayor of Tulsa, a state representative and a state senator. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. Inhofe is 85 years old – a fact that the Democrats are trying to use against him. But Inhofe is still an active pilot, with more than 11,000 flight hours.

Inhofe has been a big supporter of President Donald Trump and his policies. Inhofe said Trump made the right choice when he nominated conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Inhofe has been a supporter of the Nation Israel and an advocate for lower taxes and he supported Trump’s tax cuts.

Inhofe has supported law enforcement for decades and will oppose any efforts to defund police.

Democrat Abby Broyles from Bethany is a journalist and an attorney. She formerly worked at the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City. This is her first run for public office.

Broyles believes the government should stop climate change. She wants to expand Medicaid to cover everyone who is uninsured. She is pro-abortion rights and she supports Obamacare.

Broyles wants the full legalization of medical marijuana on a national level.

Libertarian Robert Murphy was a U.S. Senate candidate in 2016. In 2014, Murphy was an independent candidate for the U.S. House in the 5th Congressional District. He lost to former U.S. Rep. Steve Russell. In 2012, Murphy was a Libertarian candidate for the U.S. House, also.

Independent Joan Farr has worked as a traffic investigator, a buyer for Boeing Company, president of Heffington Homes, CEO of Association for Honest Attorneys and as a consultant. She is affiliated with Dorcas Ministries in Oklahoma.

Independent A.D. Nesbit has worked as an assistant professor and has been associated with the American Society of Microbiology, the American Chemical Society and the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences.

U.S. House District 1

Republican Kevin Hern of Tulsa was first elected to Congress in 2018 following the departure of former Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who became chief administrator of NASA.

Hern was an aerospace engineer for Rockwell. He started his first small business in 1985 developing software applications. He started other businesses – involving computers, real state and hog farming. He sold his hog farm in 1997 and purchased his first McDonald’s restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas. He heads an organization that owed 18 McDonald’s restaurants and employees and more than a thousand employees. He held key positions in the McDonald’s national organization.

Hern is a member on the House Committee on Small Business, the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on the Budget.

Hern is a member of the Pro-Life Caucus and Republican Israel Caucus. Hern supports President Trump and the Republican platform.

Democrat Kojo Asamoa-Caesar was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and has a law degree from William & Mary Law School.

He has been director of outreach and operations at the office of Sen. Mike Johnston and he was a founding principal of the Greenwood Leadership Academy. He was interim executive director for 36 Degrees North.

He wants the government to pay for universal childcare and universal kindergarten. He wants free tuition at all public colleges and universities and he wants the government to cancel all student loans. He wants universal healthcare for everyone and he is pro-abortion. He wants the government to provide “affordable housing” to everyone who needs it.

And he wants America to move to 100% renewable energy usage as soon as possible.

Independent Evelyn L. Rogers ran as a Republican for the House  in 2016 and for the U.S. Senate in 2014. She was a Republican candidate for Oklahoma House District 71 in 2012. She has not won any elections.

Rogers has multiple degrees in nursing, psychology, healthcare management, practical theology and library studies.

U.S. House District 2

Republican Markwayne Mullin was first elected in 2012. He owns Mullin Plumbing Company, which employs more than 150 in Northeast Oklahoma.

Mullin is on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Republican Whip Team. He sits on three subcommittees: the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, the Subcommittee on Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. 

Mullin supports law enforcement and opposes efforts to defund police. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Mullin is working to find answers to the Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which was found in favor of the Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole Nations and their authority to prosecute crimes on their tribal territories (including Tulsa).

Libertarian Richie Castaldo is a pastor in Afton, Oklahoma, on Grand Lake. He founded GrandLakeLife Church in 2015 in partnership with LifeChurch of Oklahoma City.

Castaldo wants to abolish abortion, protect the 2nd Amendment, change the justice system, end wars, end the Federal Reserve, pass the FairTax, advocate for property rights and other issues.

Democrat Danyell Lanier was a candidate for Collin County commissioners court judge in Texas in 2018 but lost.

She graduated from Hugo High School and served in the U.S. Navy from 1994 to 1999. She wants to protect Oklahoma’s natural resources and fight against large corporations. She wants to protect rural hospitals and improve the state’s infrastructure.

She thinks drug laws are unfair and she wants “unconscious bias training” for elected officials and government employees.

U.S. House District 3

Republican Frank Lucas, Cheyenne, has represented the 3rd District since 2003. (Previously, he represented the 6th District from 1994 to 2003 but Oklahoma lost a seat due to the U.S. Census).

He was chairman of the Agriculture Committee. Lucas is on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. He is on the Republican Whip Team. Lucas was in the Oklahoma House for 5 1/2 years.

Democrat Zoe Midyett owns a specialty horse, livestock and a feed store. She wants “common sense” gun laws and an end to the “discrepancy in justice” in America.

She supports special rights for homosexuals and the ratification of the ERA.

U.S. House District 4

Republican Tom Cole, Moore,  is in his ninth term in the U.S. House. He is the ranking Republican on the Rules Committee and No. 2 Republican on the Appropriations Committee.

He is a member of the Pro-Life Caucus and other conservative committees.

Cole has praised the nomination of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Cole criticized the partisan impeachment of President Trump in the House.

Libertarian Bob White will be on the ballot.

Democrat Mary Brannon is a former counselor for Purcell Schools. She won the Democrat primary in 2018 but lost to Cole in the general election.

She wants to roll back the Trump tax cuts

U.S. House District 5

Republican Sen. Stephanie Bice was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2014. She was assistant majority floor leader and is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. She previously worked in her family’s technology company and later was vice president of a digital marketing company in Oklahoma City.

Bice wants to secure America’s borders and improve the nation’s infrastructure. She supports Oklahoma’s 360,000 veterans and wants more access to postsecondary education.

Bice wants to protect Second Amendment gun rights and she is pro-life. She has been endorsed by Oklahoma Right to Life and has an A-rating from the National Rifle Association.

Rep. Kendra Horn, D-Oklahoma, is an attorney who formerly worked for U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, a Democrat. She worked for the Space Foundation and then became director of Sally’s List, a liberal political group. She founded Women Lead Oklahoma. She is on the House Armed Service Committee.

Horn, the only Democrat on the Oklahoma delegation, voted to impeach President Trump. She has been endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Horn is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition.

Horn got a 100% ranking on supporting abortion by NARAL Pro-Choice America – perhaps the most rabid pro-abortion group in the nation.

Horn is opposed to the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from funding abortions through Medicaid.