SHS will run for governor: Olson

South Dakota conservatives better figure this out quickly, or the ending is foregone conclusion. A divided conservative base calling real MAGA candidates RINOs while ensuring a Dusty governorship in 2026. If Stephanie Herseth doesn't clean his shrimpy phony clock in the general. Herseth will be their pick. And as long as we're talking, Marty Jackley is NOT running for Governor. He's likely running for Congress. All establishment apportionments subject to change of course, poll numbers depending. [Shad Olson]

Editor's note: in 2010 former US Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's reelection bid was sabotaged by a member of her own political party who threatened to run against her in the primary because she believed she was representing the majority of South Dakotans. 

Sam Hurst wrote a viral postmortem of her tenure: a sobering reminder of how Democrats lost the word war in the state. Hurst's Dakota Day piece about the defeat of the incumbent Sandlin to Kristi Noem defined the choice of the South Dakota Democratic Party to enable Dr. Kevin Weiland to mount a primary run against Sandlin instead of a general election run against the unopposed John Thune. 

It’s a struggle if not impossible to imagine either Stephanie or Max Sandlin living in a fetid pond like Pierre and if SHS has learned anything it’s that she’s over getting into any election where she could lose. In 2017 she told friends she was done with politics and was selected as the 24th president of Augustana University. In 2021 she chose not to seek a position on the federal bench.