A governor jeopardized his chances in the White House by killing his dog

The governor of South Dakota is one of the rising figures in the Republican Party: extremely conservative, with a flashy image and aggressive speech, very close to Donald Trump. Noem is all in the pool to occupy ‘Trumpism’s’ most lucrative position: as the vice-presidential nominee on Trump’s ‘presidential ticket’ and, perhaps in the future, as successor to his political movement.

According to him in his upcoming book No Going Back: The Truth of What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, the bullet he fired at the dog could have ruined everything (some Kind) ‘Don’t Look Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We’re Moving America Forward.’

, It is scheduled to be published next month, but The Guardian had access to the evidence and noted a passage in which Noem described the episode as part of her rural life, which would make her popular with voters in South Dakota and other states. Connects the country to a larger part.

The dog that was killed was not an old or sick dog that Farmer Noem wanted to save from suffering. He was a hunter, of pointer breed, young, fourteen months old, not properly developed. In his description, ‘Cricket’ – that was the dog’s name –, It was “aggressive”, “it couldn’t be trained”, it was no good for hunting, attacked some neighbors’ chickens, was dangerous and tried to bite the owner on the spot. He shot it and it ended up in a hole. The same fate happened to an angry goat of the farm who was going after the governor’s children.

What was once routine in rural life has become a national scandal, stoked by Democrats to discredit Noem and, by extension, Republicans and Trump.

Tim Waltz, the Democratic governor of South Dakota’s neighboring state of Minnesota, fired the first shot. ,Share a photo with your dog that has nothing to do with shooting him And throw it in a pit. “I will start,” he wrote on the social network X, accompanied by his pet Labrador. Many other Democratic figures followed, some of whom had future presidential aspirations, such as Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, or Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy.

campaign of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Also shared pictures of the President and Vice President with their dogs for re-election. Biden’s case is important, because one of his dogs has caused a lot of problems in the White House with attacks on members of the presidential residence.

Risk of losing ‘points’ to become vice presidential candidate

The Democratic National Committee (DNC), the party’s governing body, tried to gain electoral advantage from the smoke. They shared a statement on behalf of the “DNC dogs”: “If you want political representatives who don’t brag about brutally killing their pets as part of a self-promotion book, our owners Listen and vote Democrat.”

The matter is not a joke. There are 86 million households in America where there are pets., For many Americans, their pets are more important than any political stance, and many will not understand decisions like Noem’s in the context of rural life.

The episode puts Noem in danger of losing her spot in the race to become the vice presidential nominee. By now he was considered the second favorite behind South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. For some people very close to Trump, the slip even takes them out of the race, Laura Loomer, an ‘influencer’, lover of conspiracies and very close to Trump, explained: “You can’t kill your dog and then be vice president.”