Incumbents are expected to prevail in the Republican primary elections in South Dakota, recent polling data indicates.
And, given that the state hasn’t elected a Democrat in decades, the incumbents are likely to sail to re-election in the general election in November.
“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,” University of South Dakota political science professor Michael Card told The Epoch Times. “South Dakota hasn’t elected a Democrat for governor since 1974. It’s a solidly Republican state.”
Card said that the Democrats voters are split between populist liberal Republicans and GOP stalwarts….