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South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem defeated her Democratic challenger Jamie Smith and Libertarian candidate Tracey Quint in Tuesday’s midterms, winning reelection for a second term in office.
Noem enjoyed
the endorsement of former President Donald Trump who said he would be making “big
announcement” about his 2024 presidential bid on November 15 at his Mar-a-Lago
estate.
Both NBC
News and ABC News projected Noem’s victory after polls closed on Tuesday across
most of America.
She had represented
South Dakota in the House from 2011 to 2019 before cutting short her stay in the
House to join the South Dakota’s gubernatorial race.
South Dakota
has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws which were triggered after the
Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe vs. Wade precedent which gave women
the right to abortion.
Noem was projected to win Tuesday’s elections after she got nearly 20 percentage points ahead of Democrat Jamie Smith in a survey from Emerson College Polling and The Hill which was conducted in mid-October.