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EPISODE · Jul 29, 2026 · 13 MIN

Rhoden runs away from Doeden in Republican runoff. Patrick Lalley breaks it down!

from Happy Hour with John Gaskins · host John Gaskins

It's over!   After an early June election failed to yield a clear-cut Republican nominee to be South Dakota's next governor, two months of more mud-slinging campaign ads on your television set came to a screeching halt on Tuesday night— an early halt.   That's because Gov. Larry Rhoden's Republican primary runoff win over first-time political campaigner Toby Doeden was called by 8:08 p.m.   The final score in percentage of votes— Rhoden 71, Doeden 29.   How did Rhoden — the 67-year-old rancher and welder from West River who became Kristi Noem's lieutenant governor and ascended to governor one Noem took a job in the Trump administration — turn the tables so wildly on bombastic auto dealership owner Doeden, who notched the most votes of the four Republican candidates in the June 2 primary?    Sioux Falls Live editor and veteran South Dakota political reporter Patrick Lalley breaks it down over Happy Hour beers at Orion Pub in downtown Sioux Falls, where all the world's problems are solved.

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