The Republican Knives Are Out for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem – By Tom Lawrence (Daily Beast) / February 6, 2022
She’s still beloved by the masses. But suddenly it seems like every Republican official in the state has beef with the woman in charge.
South Dakota Republicans haven’t lost a statewide election since 2008. They have slapped Democrats around in just about every campaign, even running unopposed for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010 and U.S. House seat in 2020.
Now it seems like they’re so desperate for a good fight that they’ve picked several among themselves.
Gov. Kristi Noem, who has been riding high in polls in her state, has never lost an election. She served four terms in Congress before being elected governor in 2018. The South Dakota legislature has supermajorities in both chambers, with Republicans holding 94 of 105 seats. No Democrat holds statewide office.
But Noem has suddenly found plenty of opponents with whom to wage bitter political battles: fellow Republicans.
