Candidates in Oklahoma’s Republican gubernatorial primary are trying to prove they will be the most in line with President Donald Trump’s agenda — and at least one is taking a page from Trump’s 2024 campaign playbook.

The former speaker of the Oklahoma House, Charles McCall, is going up with a new ad about transgender people in sports that attacks one of his conservative competitors.

“I led the charge to keep boys out of our daughters’ locker rooms and to protect women in sports,” McCall said in the new ad .

“You shouldn’t question where your next governor stands,” McCall said. “I stand with President Trump.”

That line is a not-so-subtle jab at one of the Republican front-runners, Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who McCall claimed is insufficiently conservative and loyal to Trump.

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