Democrat Ahlers surging in South Dakota US Senate race

My opponent, Mike Rounds, said that the decision not to consider Judge Merrick Garland was a "directive of party leadership, not his." Funny, I thought he worked for the people of SD. As your next U.S. Senator, I will work for you.https://t.co/pA8NbUse4U pic.twitter.com/8DoQzzjdv7

— Dan Ahlers (@ahlers_dan) September 26, 2020

 

In a campaign fundraising email to supporters Senator Reich Mike Rounds (earth hater-SD) said he believes the Democratic blue wave is building momentum even in my home state and that "South Dakota could be the sleeper race that delivers Democrats a majority in the U.S. Senate." One of the least effective members of Congress, Rounds, bragged he could build a $9 million war chest in 2013 but has less than $2 million in the bank today. 

Dan Ahlers is a Dell Rapids businessman and former state legislator.

Dan Ahlers, a Democrat, is running against Mike Rounds, the coward who refused to impeach Trump thereby allowing the deaths of 190,000 Americans. We need an independent thinker, a true South Dakotan, as our U. S. Senator and not a man so afraid of Trump that he ignores all of his lies and deceit. [Editorial, Native Sun News Today]

Former Governor Rounds was elected to the US Senate with cash from the Kochs’ National Federation of Independent Business. The so-called “Americans for Prosperity” is a Koch-soaked dark money group with an agent in Sioux Falls. South Dakota's GOP legislators and candidates enjoy millions in lobbyist benefits from the Kochs and their American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC.

Rounds continues to play the cancer card releasing another video pimping his stricken wife and pleading with doubtful supporters to continue funding his crusade toward a second term.  In her bid to drive Rounds onto the ash heap of history upstart Republican primary contender Scyller Borglum has appeared with Governor Kristi Noem to raise awareness of youth art in South Dakota.

I’m a twenty year volunteer for DSCC, DCCC and DLCC charged with South Dakota as a territory but until now nobody in those organizations believed a Democrat could win any statewide race in the red moocher state. 

Ahlers has even been endorsed by South Dakota Republican former US Senator Larry Pressler.

Photo: Rounds poses with morbidly obese Brookings-based blogger Pat Powers.