2006 congressional challenger Bruce Whalen has posted a video to the island of misfit q-anon followers private Primary John Thune in 2022 facebook group announcing that he is going to challenge US Senator John Thune in the 2022 June Primary, telling the facebook group followers “this is just a brief announcement that I intend to compete against Senator John Thune for a Senate Seat.”
“Intend to compete” might be a strong statement, given that even with the backing of the GOP in 2006 Whalen fell short of 100,000 votes in the 2006 election, as noted by Ballotpedia:
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin incumbent |
69.1% | 230,468 | |
| Republican | Bruce W. Whalen | 29.3% | 97,864 | |
| Libertarian | Larry Rudebusch | 1.6% | 5,230 | |
| Total Votes | 333,562 | |||
Running before, Whalen was plagued by a lack of fundraising, and a campaign which made disastrous missteps. So, he’s not exactly starting from a position of notoriety or electability.
But, it’s a free country.
Good luck with that.
But does his platform and personal disposition exude election integrity, patriotism, and Americana?
We always knew that Thune was heavy in his account, and that he didn’t put that money there.
Times are different this time. I will never vote for Thune, though i always did before, because of his refusal to stand for honest elections or against election fraud. In fact, he insulted all of South Dakota Trump supporters with his words.
Thune is vastly favored. But he has serious flaws with the party trump base. If Trump stays out then he will cruise. If Trump engages and has a good candidate (I could name a few legislators) it could be a real mess. $13 million or not it’s not that many votes in SD to push a primary one way or the other.
Thune has to be laughing and I think Thune has some major issues to heal with the primary electorate.
Can someone get 50,000 votes against him and win? Not Whalen. But the right candidate with Trump’s backing could make it a miserable primary experience even if Thune still won.
Springer writes about Thune’s supposed “refusal to stand for honest elections or against election fraud.”
“I just want to find 11,780 votes.” DJT
Now that’s fraud. The only mass voter fraud we have seen demonstrated. A fact. Over fifty court cases have proven other “stolen election” claims were lies and exaggerations.
But Springer doesn’t believe it because, well, he just doesn’t want to.
So, did I also “insult all of South Dakota Trump supporters with my words”? You know… with the truth. With reality.
Dear Lora Hubbel and Bruce Whalen,
Do you believe QAnon is right or… are you a RINO?
I don’t think it’s unpatriotic or un-Republican or un-Conservative to think that a primary contest would be a good thing. I’m not saying Whalen is the man for the job, but if there is a viable, Conservative, decent primary candidate to run against Senator Thune, is that wrong?
No.
To put others down for running is just pure ignorance. So the guy really has no chance due to funding but the right candidate could give Thune a run for his money or even run him out. I think you would be shocked to find out that voters do remember and Thune has said some things that are not exactly very friendly. I personally ran into the Man and I cannot stand him. Thune is a classic RINO and that is the real fact. He is not for the people. I even question the allowing of Amazon to be built in Sioux Falls and Fargo even with Fargo not being in South Dakota, I just find it alarming because that warehouse could do a lot of damage to small business in the Sioux Falls area. It is not a good thing. I think overall South Dakota has a few major issues and maybe I will run or maybe I will not. The issues are very simple. I am not for abortion or transgenders in women’s sports. I am for a excellent education that does away with Common Core, CNN 10 and the BLM teachings that are being used to brainwash, manipulate and divide. I also believe in a free education system paid for by the state and not the taxpayers. Every time they want more money they hit the SD Taxpayers up and it has to stop. They need to budget its that simple. Then we need to address fatherless homes and the broken court system. If you address fatherless homes you cut crime by 70 percent and that is proven. It is time to hold govt accountable. It is time to make them fear us and let our voices be heard because they are seeing us every day when we show up in numbers to testify against bills that are outrageous. We the people – the politicians are spending like drunken sailors at Our Expense and Our Childrens Expense. NO MORE!! WIll I run? We will see.
The SDHSAA already has rules in place regarding the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The dog and pony show in Pierre was nothing more than people grandstanding on a wedge issue and you bite on it because you are too lazy to read into the issue. Further, there has never been any evidence provided that BLM has played any role in developing curricula for primary and secondary education. Further, what the heck does it mean for education to be “paid for by the state and not the taxpayers.?” You know who funds the state, right? If someone who is either unwilling or unable to do even basic research announces their candidacy for public office, they have announced to me that at least part of their platform is based on ignorance of existing laws and rules. As such, you sure as heck won’t have my vote.