Last weekend, I got a text from an Ogle Mole asking me what I think about Democrat Jena Nelson’s chances to upset Republican Stephanie Bice in the upcoming race for the 5th Congressional District.
I forgot to reply, but my answer is “not a lot.”
That’s not a knock against Jena, but after Kendra’s blue-wave upset in 2018, the seat has been gerrymandered to all but secure a GOP victory and keep Oklahoma under deep red control through at least the next American Civil War.
Despite that gerrymandered assurance, and a lack of serious primary challengers, Stephanie Bice isn’t taking any chances.
In what smells like a planned, calculated — and, if so, kind of sheepish — play to show she’s not afraid to stand up to the ever-unpopular Donald Trump on topics that matter to indecisive purple voters, like human decency, she rebuked the president after he gleefully celebrated the violent murder of Rob Reiner:
A father and mother were murdered at the hands of their troubled son. We should be lifting the family up in prayer, not making this about politics.
— Stephanie Bice (@stephaniebice) December 15, 2025
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. https://t.co/blmamdoGX8