I just caught up with @SenJohnThune. I said “you’re running again, right?”
Thune said: “we’ll see about that.”
He will announce by this Sunday. Announcement will be in South Dakota.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 5, 2022
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You don’t come back home to announce your going back. Fingers crossed this doesn’t lead to Senator Dusty Johnson
It’s governor dusty to you sir!
my gut tells me he is retiring…
So speculation:
Dusty runs for Senate and is the favorite but who else runs? He won’t get a free pass
With the House seat open, who jumps in? Does Shantel try again? An ambitious legislator like Hansen or Crabtree? Former legislators? TenHaken (I highly doubt)? Howard stays in the race?
I’m hoping I’m wrong and Thune runs, but the ensuing chaos could be fun to watch!
Its going to be a great primary season! Senator Tony Randolph has a nice ring to it!
Um.. what?
Randolph might be the least effective legislator in Pierre. He might be even less effective than Frye-Mueller. And that’s a pretty low bar.
That depends on what you consider effective? Voting to advance a conservative agenda and disrupting the status quo is what i consider effective.
The chaos will be for the house seat.
Mayor Selfie has been running for governor for quite some time.
I bet he retires. You can’t say your wife wants you to do something then not do it 😉
my husband doesn’t do a lot of things I want him to do
If Thune retires, it’s Dusty’s job if he wants it.
There isn’t anyone who could beat him in the primary.
Purely from an organizational, funding, and name recognition standpoint, he has such a head start that nobody will be able to get by that in time to beat him in a primary – and let’s be honest, that would be actual electoral contest. The general is a foregone conclusion.
The only state figure who MIGHT come close would be Gov. Noem, and she probably couldn’t beat him.
As people have said, this would make it a free-for-all in the House.
If Billy runs for senate the DNC will throw so much cash at him it won’t even be funny. He’ll probably have to advertise on Dakotawarcollege just to spend it all.
Mulalley has been rumored to want Senate. She could be a dark horse.
I hope they waste as much money here as their hearts desire. Every dollar they throw down the drain on Billy Sutton will be a dollar their not using in Florida, Nevada, etc.
Kristi would crush all for any seat in SD.
Running against a Dem, yes.
Running against Rounds, Thune, or Johnson, not so much.
Remember – she barely beat Billy Sutton. BARELY.
She beat him by 2%…
Normal margins of victory for Republicans running for Governors against Dems in SD are 20-30%. To find race that’s even NEARLY this close you have to go back to the 86, AND she had huge name recognition advantages from being in congress.
Her running against Johnson would cost her money at a great risk to her own profile with less than even odds at victory.
And a lot of the people that helped her last time won’t help her again…including me…most selfish unappreciated person I have ever met
John Thune in a matchup with Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries; remember Thune saying, “I’m not afraid of a fight”? This could be epic, what with the certainty of a GOP landslide coming up in 2022!