Daily Caller Profiles 5th District Race
Could this 27-year-old be an Oklahoma congressman?
by Alexis Levinson, Daily Caller Political Reporter
At the ripe old age of 27, Oklahoma state house Rep. Mike Turner is hoping to be the next U.S. Representative from Oklahoma’s Fifth District, and polling suggests he might be able to pull it off.
Turner, a Republican, caused a big upset in 2012, when, in his first run for public office, he defeated a four-term incumbent who was far better funded by 11 percent of the vote. Now, he is vying for the seat currently held by Oklahoma Republican Rep. James Lankford, who is running for Senate.
According to an internal poll provided first to The Daily Caller, Turner has the chance to pull off an upset.
The poll, conducted by WPA Opinion Research, found Turner rapidly gaining on Republican primary frontrunner state Sen. Clark Jolley over the past two months.
Another poll conducted by the same company at the end of January had Turner at the bottom of the five-candidate field, getting just four percent of the Republican vote, while Jolley took 16 percent. But the latest poll, conducted March 26-27, has Turner squarely in the game with 13 percent of the vote, behind Jolley’s 18 percent. The other three candidates have less than ten percent of the vote. 49 percent of voters remain undecided.