In this story, Sutton pretty much sums up NOEM’s climb of nothingness;
It also helps that he’s a young politician who has stayed in South Dakota while his opponent is a congresswoman who has spent the last seven years casting votes in Congress ― a body that is not popular in any state. He has hammered Noem as an ambitious Washington insider who is running a campaign with money that she transferred from her federal campaign account. This was a practice that was banned in the referendum passed by voters in 2016 and reversed by the Republican Legislature almost immediately after.
“She’s just been climbing the ladder, one elected office at a time,†Sutton said.
She also has been pretty good at wearing trucker hats.