Oklahoma City’s GOP mayor: ‘Morally and intellectually bankrupt’ party deserved ‘rebuke’

Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt (R) criticized his own party Tuesday, saying the GOP deserved the “rebuke” of the American people amid the Democratic Party’s sweeping victory in the midterm elections.

“A political party that is morally and intellectually bankrupt deserves the rebuke of the American people,” Holt wrote on social media Tuesday night. “It is now time to make America good again.”

Democrats secured control of both the House and the Senate, including Senate wins in battleground states like Texas, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa.

GOP candidates maintained a strong hold in Oklahoma, with Republican Rep. Kevin Hern defeating Democrat N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas in a competitive race for the state’s open Senate seat . However, in the neighboring states of Texas and Kansas, Democrats secured historic wins.

Texas Democratic candidates James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa defeated their Republican opponents, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, respectively, in the state’s Senate and gubernatorial races.

Talarico will be the first Democrat to hold a Senate seat in the Lone Star State since 1988.

In Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton defeated incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall. Hamilton will be the first Democratic senator from the Sunflower State since 1939.

“We are humans, and the things that unite us far exceed the things that divide us. We are the caretakers of the American experiment, and the experiment has been rejuvenated tonight,” Holt said in his post.