Trump’s Pastor Bro WITHDRAWS From Race!

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A married pastor who built his brand on moral authority just ended his run for Congress two days before a primary — not because he lost, but because he got caught.

Story Snapshot

  • Jackson Lahmeyer, founder of Pastors for Trump and a Tulsa megachurch pastor, suspended his Oklahoma congressional campaign after a sexting scandal broke two days before the primary.
  • Lahmeyer admitted to “crossing a boundary line through text messaging” with a former Miss Oklahoma USA who worked as his campaign fundraiser.
  • The woman told the Daily Mail the texts stopped only after Lahmeyer’s wife discovered them and reached out to her directly.
  • President Trump pulled his endorsement of Lahmeyer following the scandal and switched his support to another candidate.

The Timing Could Not Have Been Worse

Lahmeyer had just advanced to a Republican runoff for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District. One day after that win, the British tabloid the Daily Mail published a story claiming he had sent inappropriate texts to Caitlin Simmons Key, a campaign staffer, fundraiser, and former Miss Oklahoma USA. [1] The story dropped with brutal timing — two days before the primary runoff. Lahmeyer did not deny the texts. He admitted them.

Lahmeyer posted a statement on X, formerly Twitter, saying he owned “crossing a boundary line through text messaging” and claimed he had ended all contact with Key. [9] He also said the matter had been handled privately between him and his wife, Kendra, through prayer and spiritual counsel. He pushed back on the Daily Mail’s framing, suggesting a political opponent paid to plant the story. That accusation, so far, has no supporting evidence.

What the Other Woman Said

Key gave her own account to the Daily Mail. She said the texts were inappropriate and that they stopped only after Lahmeyer’s wife found them — just days before Mother’s Day — and contacted Key directly. [9] That account directly contradicts Lahmeyer’s claim that he ended communication on his own terms. It also raises a harder question: would any of this have come out if his wife had not discovered the texts first?

The Daily Mail also reported that Lahmeyer invited Key to his hotel room late at night and that a strip club visit with cocaine offers was part of the story. Lahmeyer’s public statement did not address those specific claims. He called the tabloid’s portrayal inaccurate but left the details unanswered. Silence on specifics rarely helps a candidate’s case.

Trump Pulled the Plug on His Endorsement

President Trump had endorsed Lahmeyer as part of his broader support for MAGA-aligned candidates in Oklahoma. After the scandal broke, Trump withdrew that endorsement and shifted his support to another candidate in the race. [7] For a man who built his entire political identity around the Trump brand and founded an organization literally called Pastors for Trump, losing that endorsement was not just a political setback. It was a collapse of the foundation his campaign stood on.

Lahmeyer announced he was suspending his campaign, citing a desire not to be “a distraction to my family, my church, and the great people of Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District.” [1] That is a reasonable thing to say. It is also the only move left when your top endorser walks away two days before voters go to the polls.

The Credibility Gap Is the Real Story

Lahmeyer is a pastor with five children who made his public name connecting Christian faith to political action. That identity creates a higher bar — not an unfair one, but a real one. When a candidate campaigns on moral values and family, voters reasonably expect those values to show up at home first. The admission of inappropriate texts with a woman on his own campaign staff, a woman his wife had to personally contact to make it stop, is not a minor footnote. It is a direct contradiction of the image he sold to voters.

His claim that the matter was resolved privately through prayer is impossible to verify and relies entirely on his own word — the word of the same man who was sending the texts. [1] That does not make the claim false. It does make it thin. Conservative voters who care about integrity in their leaders are right to expect more than a self-reported resolution with no outside confirmation. Accountability that only happens after discovery is not the same as accountability by conviction.

Sources:

[1] Web – Pastors for Trump founder drops congressional bid amid sexting scandal …

[7] Web – FOX23 News – Facebook

[9] Web – JACKSON LAHMEYER CHEATS ON WIFE? We just obtained some …

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