Oklahoma Rep. John Sullivan lost his Republican primary in a major upset Tuesday, against Iraq War veteran and tea party insurgent Jim Bridenstine.
Bridenstine won with 54 percent of the vote, compared with Sullivan’s 46 percent.
Sullivan first won the solidly Republican Tulsa-based seat in a 2002 special election. But Bridenstine was able to focus voters’ frustrations with Washington into a weapon against Sullivan, charging that the entrenched incumbent was a career politician who had not done anything to distinguish himself, according to the Tulsa World.
