An aluminum smelter becomes part of Oklahoma Republican governor runoff election

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A proposed $4 billion aluminum smelter pushed by President Trump is splitting Oklahoma Republicans.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Primary season is running out, but not before Oklahoma voters cast their ballots in tomorrow's Republican primary runoff. Oklahoma is a reliably red state, so in all likelihood, this is the vote that will determine who leads the state next. As Graycen Wheeler from member station KOSU reports, an industrial aluminum processing facility, a smelter, backed by Trump has divided the two candidates. GRAYCEN WHEELER, BYLINE: Inola, Oklahoma, is home to just shy of 2,000 people. Twenty-five miles east of Tulsa, it bills itself the hay capital of the world.