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    Republican senator says Noem’s story of killing her 14-month-old hunting dog makes her unlikely to be Trump’s running mateMitt Romney may have infamously tied a dog in a kennel to the roof of his car for a cross-country trip but at least he didn’t shoot it, the Utah Republican senator said, as outrage over the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, telling her story of killing a 14-month-old hunting dog continued to ripple through US politics.“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my...

  • Why in the world would Kristi Noem admit to shooting her dog?

    Gov. Kristi Noem has been at the center of some unfortunate controversies of late, but by any air measure, last week’s revelations were orders of magnitude worse for the ambitious South Dakota Republican. At first blush, the accusations sounded like scurrilous accusations floated by a former aide who was determined to destroy her political career. But that’s not what happened: Rather, it was Noem herself who wrote a memoir in which she described, among other things, killing her 14-month-old dog...

  • Kristi Noem Confronted With Republican Criticism for Shooting Dog

    South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was confronted with Republican criticism about her account of fatally shooting her dog in her upcoming book during an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday.Noem, a Republican who has been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee for former President Donald Trump ahead of this year's presidential election, drew bipartisan backlash over an excerpt that was published late last month by the British newspaper The Guardian about her dog, Cricket, in...