Flirty Texts Force Oklahoma Pastor Out Of Congressional Race
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🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Trump backed GOP candidate Jackson Lahmeyer has dropped out of his congressional race in Oklahoma, just one day after Election Day. Lahmeyer was headed toward a runoff in November when a British tabloid printed flirty text messages between Lahmeyer and a former campaign staffer who was not his wife. Lahmeyer released a statement saying he and his wife had already dealt with the matter privately, but decided to suspend his campaign to avoid further distraction to his family and the church where he serves as pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Thursday, June 18th. |
| 0:09.2 | And he had a successful, a successful election night this week. |
| 0:14.7 | That was on Tuesday. |
| 0:16.4 | On Wednesday, he dropped out of the race altogether. Why? Text messages. With that, welcome to this |
| 0:24.9 | episode of Amy and TJ. You just said before we went on, you kind of surprised it rose to |
| 0:29.8 | this level, given what his alleged issue was or his misbehaving was. But yeah, we are election night on Tuesday. He's celebrating. |
| 0:40.1 | Wednesday, he drops out. Yeah, and I was surprised just maybe we're all so jaded with so many |
| 0:45.4 | different political scandals that seemingly pop up at least once a week. But usually we've, we've had |
| 0:51.0 | some pretty significant accusations about cheating, about salacious texts. |
| 0:58.1 | When I... |
| 0:58.4 | Swalwell, Gonzalez, come to mind. |
| 1:00.0 | Yes, exactly. And actual cheating, actual foul behavior. |
| 1:04.6 | And I'm not saying that what he did was okay, but it just didn't seem like it was that |
| 1:09.4 | terrible that he was forced out of the race. |
| 1:13.0 | But yeah, he flirted with a woman, it sounded like, on a text message while he was married. |
| 1:17.7 | He is a pastor. |
| 1:19.4 | But okay. |
| 1:21.2 | I mean, look, we should start with that off the top. |
| 1:25.0 | What he did was wrong. |
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