On Wednesday, the NY Times quoted South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) as one of many key nationwide GOP leaders that the publication said were “inching away” from Trump and his bid to reclaim the White House in 2024.
“If we narrow our focus there, then we’re not talking to every single American,” the Times reported Noem saying in an interview. “Our job is not just to talk to people who love Trump or hate Trump. Our job is to talk to every single American.”
Noem, however, called out the NY Times calling them ‘liars’ during an episode of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.
“The New York Times are liars,” she said during the podcast. “What they printed is not what I said. What I said is that every single one of us, as Republicans, needs to be messengers. It’s all of our jobs.
“President Trump is the only one running for president, who’s the only one who has been president. He’s obviously the leader of our party right now and he has a responsibility, but we all do, too.”
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Noem, who easily won reelection by a landslide against Democrat Janie Smith, said that it is not just the responsibility of one person to get the GOP message out to voters.
“I think that’s what we need to recognize,” she said. “That we should not put all the weight of messaging what is great about America on one person. That it’s every one of our jobs and we should get up every day with that responsibility on our shoulders.”
The South Dakota Governor also suggests that Republicans need to change campaign strategies after narrowly winning the House and losing the Senate to Democrats during the 2022 midterms.
“[Republicans] are all responsible,” she said. “We all failed in this election by not talking and telling our stories. What we did is what conservatives believe in, and it works.”
Noem also made the point of instead of “bashing” President Biden for his disastrous agenda that has hurt America, Republicans should be promoting what they were doing to make American lives better. “We did conservative things, and we know the benefits that come,” she said.
