That’s right, it’s another day – and another far-right-extremist candidate for Glenn Youngkin to campaign for! This time, we’re talking about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (see the announcement, below) on November 2 in Sioux Falls. Noem will fit right in with all the other horrendous, anti-democracy, anti-choice, anti-environment, pro-gun, etc. candidates he’s already campaigned for or has plans to campaign for (Paul LePage in Maine, Kari Lake in Arizona, Lee Zeldin in New York, Tudor Dixon in Michigan, Joe Lombardo in Nevada, Derek Schmidt in Kansas, Heidi Ganahl in Colorado, Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma – and of course MAGA Republicans Yesli Vega, Hung Cao and Jen Kiggans here in Virginia). For more on Noem, see below.
- SD Gov. Kristi Noem (R) – Who Amanda Chase Praised and Plagiarized – Welcomed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally To Her State; Now, >250k COVID-19 Cases Are Tied To It.
- Noem “declined to enact a statewide mask mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the guidance of medical experts.”
- “Noem opposes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and has voted to repeal it.[54][55] Having unsuccessfully sought to repeal it, she sought to defund it…”
- GOP Gov. Kristi Noem Says 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Should Be Forced to Have Baby (Video)
- “Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, South Dakota became one of the first states to enact trigger laws banning abortions.[87] In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Noem defended South Dakota’s abortion ban, which only allows exceptions in cases in which the mother’s life is in danger. When asked about the case of the 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio to Indiana in order to receive an abortion, Noem said that she would not support changing the law to allow exceptions for victims of rape, explaining that she does not ‘believe a tragic situation should be perpetuated by another tragedy.‘[87]“
- “Early on, Noem also emphasized South Dakota’s role in evaluating hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that Trump had touted when he tweeted, “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine.”[122] It has never been shown to be useful in treating COVID-19 but can produce fatal cardiac arrythmia.[123][124]“
- “One of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. at the time[when?] occurred in South Dakota.”
- “Noem opposes same-sex marriage. In 2015 she said she disagreed with Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional.”
- “Noem claimed that the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump, was marred by widespread voter fraud; no evidence supports this claim.”
- ” One day after calling for peace and reconciliation in the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol, Noem called the two newly elected Democratic senators from Georgia, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, “communists” in an op-ed for The Federalist, prompting criticism from South Dakota Democrats.[212]“
- “In 2022, Noem sought to have prayer put back in school after mentioning it in a speech in Iowa.”
- South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct,” ethics board says
- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter was given an extra chance to obtain real estate license, former state employee testifies
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