Republican factions fighting for control of the party in Tuesday’s primary election (SD)

South Dakota Searchlight ^ | 6/1/24 | Joshua Haiar

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Most of the action in Tuesday’s South Dakota primary election is in Republican legislative races, where a fight for control of the party has drawn in players ranging from upstart challengers to fundraising groups affiliated with members of Congress.

There are 44 Republican legislative primary races across the state, and only one Democratic legislative primary. Winners will go on to represent the party in the Nov. 5 general election, when all 105 seats in the Legislature will be up for grabs.

Republicans currently hold all but 11 of those seats, and their grip on the majority is not in doubt. But the party’s direction could be influenced by Tuesday’s results, many of which will be the final result. Among 35 districts, 16 of them lack general election contests for House seats and 20 lack general election contests for Senate seats, due to candidates running unopposed or one of the parties (mostly Democrats) failing to field a candidate. In other words, in some districts, the primary election is the de facto general election.

[hal ogen]

The absence of DIMocrats must make SD a great place to live.

[Hattie]

While the democrats steal elections and destroy America, the republicans play grade school.

[Fish Speaker]

Here in Northern Kentucky, we have the same situation. The primary is the real election because all of the Republicans are running unopposed in the general election.

[DIRTYSECRET]

The SD congressman is a girlie-man. Johnson.

When senate seat opens up he’ll be another John Thune.

[Wallace T.]

Primaries for state and local officials are the most effective means of decreasing the influence of RINOs and bringing in real Americans into public office. The Republican Party must be transformed into a truly conservative party, something it has not been since the 1930s.

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“fighting”