State Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the 2022 election cycle.
Dahm is challenging U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma. Tulsa Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer has also announced that he will run against Lankford in the GOP primary.
Dahm has criticized Lankford for not doing more to stand up for Trump by opposing the certification of now President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ apparent win.
Dahm is in his third term as a state senator. His term expires in 2024.
According to the Conservative Index, Dahm is consistently the most conservative senator in the state. He fully supports the “Make America Great Again” theme championed by former President Donald Trump.
Dahm said Trump gave America a booming economy, gained tax relief for the middle class, cut bureaucratic red tape, kept America out of wars and kept the nation safe.
“What did he get for it? He got abandoned by spineless politicians,” Dahm said. “They turned on President Trump and on the patriots. Now the media, the far left and RINO Republicans want 2020 to be the end of the story. They want Trump Republicans like me to stay quiet and roll over as they usher in their new normal.
“That’s why I am running for the United States Senate – because I won’t roll over.”
Dahm spent his childhood in Broken Arrow. Then his family felt called to become missionaries to Romania in Eastern Europe. After high school, Dahm was a missionary. He said he saw the negative effects of communism and socialism in Europe and he is concerned about how the socialism is being embraced by the Left in America.
Dahm is one of the few home-schooled graduates to serve in the Oklahoma Senate.
His campaign platform is:
- Securing America’s elections
- Backing first responders
- Stopping Critical Race Theory
- Defending the Right to Life
- Protecting the Second Amendment
- Securing America’s borders
- Opposing vaccine passports
His website is www.dahmforsenate.com.
Lankford, who formerly ran Falls Creek Youth Camp (a ministry of the Baptist General Convention), was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and then to the U.S. Senate in 2014.
Lahmeyer has been endorsed by former Trump National Security Advisor and Retired General Michael Flynn.
In a press release, Lahmeyer accused the “Washington Establishment” of recruiting Dahm as a “spoiler candidate” to keep him from unseating Lankford. He suggested that he and Dahm would split the “pro-America First, pro-religious freedom, anti-mask mandate and evangelical Christian anti-establishment vote.”