Oklahoma’s Democratic Senate Nominee: Impeach Trump in the First 100 Days

N’Kiyla “Jasmine” Thomas is now the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Oklahoma. In July, public radio asked her how she would work with President Donald Trump.

She did not talk about committees, appropriations, or the occasional deal. She talked about getting him out.

“Like I said, I’m kind, not nice,” Thomas told KOSU reporter Sabrina Thaler in an interview published July 29. “So I will make sure that I work as diligently as I can to make sure that within my first 100 days that we impeach, remove, and convict. They will have to pry that pen out of my cold, dead hands before I go any further with allowing this administration to continue doing what they’re doing.”

The question was about a working relationship. Thomas circled back so nobody missed the point.

“I am going to remove, impeach, remove and convict. That’s it. Like that’s all. That’s the answer.”

KOSU published a transcript and noted it was lightly edited for clarity and brevity. 46th State is quoting that published transcript. We have not found a later interview in which Thomas walked the statement back.

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, Democratic runoff voters chose her over Oklahoma City attorney Jim Priest. Unofficial returns reported by KTEN show Thomas with 77,944 votes and Priest with 49,693. The State Election Board will certify the runoff on Sept. 1. Until then, those numbers are unofficial.

Thomas is a nurse and an Ardmore native. KXII reports she is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She has never held elected office. KOSU reported she led a five-way June Democratic primary with 45 percent, short of a majority, which is why Tuesday’s runoff happened.

She faces U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Tulsa, on Nov. 3. Oklahoma has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since David Boren in 1990. KOSU noted that Hern received more votes in the Republican primary than every Democratic Senate candidate combined.

That is the race. It is not a secret toss-up. It is a choice the Democratic Party actually made.

A United States senator does not impeach a president. The House impeaches. The Senate holds the trial and votes on conviction. Thomas is running for the Senate. Her own answer collapsed that sequence into one vow, then repeated it. Readers can see the words. They do not need us to decorate them.

The rest of the interview fits. Asked about federal policy, she said she would “codify our civil rights.” Asked how she would reach Republicans and independents, she said Oklahoma’s closed primaries had already shut independents out of the party runoff, then drew a line through part of the electorate she would not try to persuade.

“Our super MAGA Republicans, our job is not to change their mind,” she said. “We’re not going to switch that. I am very, very well aware of that.”

The coalition she named instead: younger voters, Black and brown communities, “disengaged and apathetic” people, and “moderate Republicans.” Oklahoma Watch, covering the runoff, wrote that she ran on campaign-finance reform and restoring federal abortion rights.

After the runoff, Hern told Fox News Digital that “Socialist Democrats like N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas are wildly out of touch with the values of Oklahomans.” That is his language, not a finding of this newsroom. The KOSU transcript does not use the word socialist. We are not treating a campaign website we have not fully opened as a source for her platform.

News9, citing unofficial Election Board figures, put turnout in the Democratic Senate runoff at 129,439 ballots, about 21 percent of registered Democrats. Independents could not vote in that party contest. They can vote on Nov. 3.

Thomas described herself as “kind, not nice.” Kindness, she said, is “standing up to the oppressor and saying no when everyone else is saying yes.”

Oklahoma Democrats had a more conventional option in the runoff. Oklahoma Watch wrote that Priest had positioned himself as a centrist who could compete in a Republican-dominated state. They picked the candidate who, on tape, defined a working relationship with the president as impeachment in 100 days.

The receipts are the interview. The date is July 29. The nomination is Tuesday. The election is Nov. 3.

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WHY IT MATTERS

This is not a prediction that she wins. It is the record of what the Democratic nominee said, on tape, about working with the president. Conservatives who skip a “safe” Senate race still have a reason to know the name on the other line. She's a Socialist in our book.