{"id":36252,"date":"2022-06-14T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36252"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:55:31","slug":"the-2022-senate-campaign-south-dakotas-a-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/14\/the-2022-senate-campaign-south-dakotas-a-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2022 Senate Campaign: South Dakota&#8217;s A Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as <em><strong>Bedrock Press<\/strong><\/em> was about to close the books on <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/11\/the-2022-senate-campaign-strong-fingernails\/#southdakota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Dakota&#8217;s Senate Race<\/a>, a member of the Democrats has stepped forth to challenge incumbent Senator Thune (R):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official! I am the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Dakota!<\/p>\n<p>One person is not entitled to a U.S. Senate seat for a quarter-century. I will hold Thune accountable for his votes that hurt the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>Can you Like, RT, &amp; Follow to help me get 25k this week?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Bengs for U.S. Senate (@BrianBengs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianBengs\/status\/1536462550329708544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say much good about announcing one&#8217;s candidacy on one of the crappiest social platforms on the Web, but <em><strong>Ballotpedia<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Brian_Bengs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirms the nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know what? There&#8217;s one serious question that comes to mind here:<\/p>\n<p>Would former President Trump, who reportedly hates Senator Thune, endorse Bengs? What would the <em><strong>South Dakota GOP<\/strong><\/em> base make of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as Bedrock Press was about to close the books on South Dakota&#8217;s Senate Race, a member of the Democrats has stepped forth to challenge incumbent Senator Thune (R): It\u2019s official! I am the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Dakota! One person is not entitled to a U.S. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/14\/the-2022-senate-campaign-south-dakotas-a-competition\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36261,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252\/revisions\/36261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}