Horn handily captures Democratic nod in closely watched race

Sean Murphy, Associated Press
Updated 9:52 pm CDT, Tuesday, June 30, 2020

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn easily dispatched her lone opponent Tuesday to capture the Democratic nomination in Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District, while Republicans were paring down a crowded field of congressional hopefuls looking to replace her.

In the race for Oklahoma’s U.S. Senate seat, incumbent U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe defeated three GOP challengers and will face Democrat Abby Broyles, an attorney and former television reporter from Oklahoma City who also bested three primary challengers.

The real challenge for Horn, the only Democrat in Oklahoma's congressional delegation, comes in November. Nine Republicans are vying to take back a seat they believe should belong to the GOP. Horn, a 44-year-old attorney, pulled one of the nation’s biggest congressional upsets in 2018 when she won a seat that had been in Republican hands for four decades. Tuesday she defeated perennial candidate Tom Guild, a retired college professor from Edmond

Horn is considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the nation because she represents a district President Donald Trump won by nearly 14 points in 2016. Both parties are working fiercely to keep a win in their column in November.

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