{"id":69860,"date":"2026-03-24T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-announces-who-hes-tapping-to-replace-markwayne-mullin-in-the-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:35","slug":"oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-announces-who-hes-tapping-to-replace-markwayne-mullin-in-the-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-announces-who-hes-tapping-to-replace-markwayne-mullin-in-the-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt announces who he’s tapping to replace Markwayne Mullin in the US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Oklahoma<\/a> Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday announced Alan Armstrong as his choice to fill Markwayne Mullin’s U.S. Senate seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Senate<\/a> on Monday voted 54-45 to confirm President Donald Trump’s nomination of Mullin to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Mullin is being sworn in Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Stitt, who made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday, described Armstrong in a post<\/a> on X as “a proud third-generation Oklahoman, staunch conservative, respected business leader, and a devoted family man with an inspiring American Dream story.”<\/p>\n

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The governor noted during the press conference that Armstrong is stepping down from the board of Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company’s website<\/a> describes Williams as an “energy infrastructure company.”<\/p>\n

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,<\/a> was the only Republican to vote against Mullin’s confirmation, while Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico were the only Democrats to vote for confirmation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mullin cast a vote to green-light his own nomination.<\/p>\n

Armstrong will not be able to run in the next election for the Senate seat he’s now filling because Oklahoma state law<\/u><\/a> stipulates that “a person who is a prospective appointee shall submit to the Secretary of State an oath affirming that the person will not file as a candidate for the office when it next appears on the ballot.”<\/p>\n

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Mullin is replacing Kristi Noem, who will instead serve<\/a> as a special envoy for a security initiative pertaining to the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday announced Alan Armstrong as his choice to fill Markwayne Mullin’s U.S. Senate seat.\u00a0 The Senate on Monday voted 54-45 to confirm President Donald Trump’s nomination of Mullin to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Mullin is being sworn in Tuesday. Stitt, who made the announcement … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}