Kristi Noem?
Mike Rounds has already announced but Noem would be awesome. Any represenative from SD has won statewide so is just as good as a governor.
Wasn’t Kristi Noem the one that went big time for ethanol subsidies? I was so disappointed that one of our Tea Party candidates (I’m pretty sure she was one) folded like that.
PPP released a poll last week showing Herseth as a much stronger GE candidate than Tim Johnson (or his son, for that matter), so I was expecting this announcement soon.
The same poll had former Gov. Mike Rounds running much stronger than Congresswoman Kristi Noem. I know, I know, it’s PPP, but I am by no means surprised that two-term Gov. Rounds would run ahead of Noem (who beat Herseth by a rather narrow margin in über-Republican 2010) in the general.