Running Against Trump's Cruelty in A Deep Red State
IHIP News
Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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We are joined by Congressional candidate Jena Nelson to discuss the reality of running against MAGA in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K.-slash-wondery. That's audible.com.uk-slash-wondery. |
| 0:16.0 | Today on IHib News, we have a special treat. |
| 0:20.0 | The 5th District Congressional candidate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Gina Nelson from our home state. Welcome, Gina. Hi, good morning, everybody. Good morning. Now, so tell me, you are running against Stephanie Bice, who is an incumbent. |
| 0:43.3 | And knowing and living here, I know that she has done zero town halls. |
| 0:51.8 | Are you going and talking to constituents that feel like there have been slided in that regard? |
| 0:53.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:56.5 | So Stephanie Bice has not done an in-person town hall in over four years. So she has been cherry picking her constituents that she gets to talk |
| 1:03.0 | to. And so I have now had four and I think five now coming up town halls and we have more to come. |
| 1:11.6 | We also are doing small meet and greets and basically showing up wherever people want to hear |
| 1:17.6 | what we have to offer in terms of representing them in the fifth district. |
| 1:22.6 | And as a representative for Oklahoma, Stephanie Bice has voted with Trump on everything. |
| 1:31.8 | And so what is it that you feel like that you can bring to this position and a two-part question? |
| 1:38.6 | And then are you talking to people in Oklahoma City that are like, we're, we don't support these policies |
| 1:45.0 | that this administration is rolling out. |
| 1:48.0 | Well, I'll start with that second question and I will say they absolutely are, they're |
| 1:54.0 | tired. They are tired of the fact that we are constantly on the fence of are we going to be able to eat? |
| 2:01.6 | Are we going to be able to feed our children? |
| 2:03.6 | Are we going to be able to send our children to school without them being snatched off of the street? |
| 2:09.6 | And so, you know, the 5th District contains more, of course, than just Oklahoma City. |
| 2:14.6 | We have Logan and Lincoln and we also have Seminole counties. We have a little |
| 2:20.8 | bit of Canadian County and Pottawatomie County. So it is a very diverse district with a lot of |
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