Oklahoma pastor who was backed by Trump exits GOP House runoff

Jackson Lahmeyer, an Oklahoma megachurch minister who founded Pastors for Trump, has withdrawn from a runo_ for a U.S. House seat from Oklahoma, following reports that he had sent romantic text messages to a woman who is not his wife.

A day after advancing to the August runo_, Lahmeyer issued a statement on Wednesday saying that he had made the “dicult decision” to suspend his campaign “after praye…