Oklahoma GOP chair backs Lankford's primary challenger

Driving the news: Bennett, who was elected as party chair on April 10, spoke at a rally organized by Lankford's GOP challenger, Jackson Lahmeyer, a Trump ally and pastor in Tulsa.

• Lahmeyer has promoted the false notion that the 2020 election was rigged, writing on Twitter yesterday: "What happened on January 6, 2021 doesn’t change what happened on November 3, 2020. Period."
• Bennett said that being a Republican doesn't make someone "the right pick" in explaining his reasoning for supporting Lahmeyer.
• Bennett has said that he is supporting Lahmeyer as an individual, not in his capacity as GOP chair.

What he's saying: "It’s more unheard of than it is rare," Lankford said of Bennett supporting Lahmeyer. "I’d say it’s highly unusual for a state party chair in any state in America to come out and say, ‘I’m not going to at least be neutral.'"

• "Obviously the state party makes their own decisions on what they want to be able to do. But every state party chairman I’ve ever talked to has … at a minimum — it’s always just remain neutral," Lankford said.

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