Meeting to censure Oklahoma GOP senator was 'held illegitimately': report

Last week, US Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) in a bipartisan agreement, decided "on a border package aimed at curbing the flow of migrants at the Southern border," according to CNN.

Hours later, Oklahoma State Rep. Dusty Denver's (R), shared a copy of a press release via X/Twitter announcing the approved resolution from the state's GOP, calling on Lankford "to cease and desist jeopardizing the security and liberty of the people of Oklahoma and of these United States."

However, according to a Tuesday, January 30 Daily Beast report, Oklahoma GOP Chair Nathan Dahm "came forward on Monday to say that the vote had been held illegitimately."

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Dahm, the Beast reports, "had not been present at the meeting, which was called by Vice Chair Wayne Hill, a party spokesperson told The Hill on Tuesday. The resolution to condemn Lankford until he ceased 'jeopardizing the security and liberty of the people of Oklahoma and of these United States' was announced by a press release from Wayne Hill himself."

The news outlet notes the OKGOP emphasized in a statement that the censure resolution "was invalid," as "a Saturday meeting 'held by certain Republicans' hadn’t been done according to procedure, with proper notice not being provided 'to all members of the State Committee meeting.'"

Dahm, according to the Beast, told local Oklahoma station KOKI-TV that "Hill and the other members present at the meeting were not authorized to act on their own."

He added, "Yes, there are people within the Republican Party that are disgruntled with Sen. Lankford, with some of the border negotiations, some of those things. But it was in no way an official action of the OKGOP."

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The Daily Beast's full report is here (subscription required).