{"id":1423909,"date":"2022-04-07T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423909"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:00:51","slug":"kristi-noem-attempts-to-broaden-support-in-major-speech-ahead-of-potential-2024-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kristi-noem-attempts-to-broaden-support-in-major-speech-ahead-of-potential-2024-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem Attempts To Broaden Support In Major Speech Ahead Of Potential 2024 Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkristi-noem-attempts-to-broaden-support-in-major-speech-ahead-of-potential-2024-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem laid out her vision for the Republican Party in a speech Wednesday night amid speculation she could launch a campaign for president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Noem, who rose to prominence due to her comparatively <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/kristi-noem-lockdowns-ron-desantis-covid-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relaxed COVID-19 restrictions<\/a>, touched on a wide range of issues while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4P-6XwFdJWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speaking<\/a> at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of her pandemic policies, the governor emphasized her recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/kristi-noem-critical-race-theory-south-dakota\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restricting of Critical Race Theory<\/a> in K-12 classrooms and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/kristi-noem-trans-athletes-womens-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation she signed<\/a> in February requiring athletes to compete in divisions corresponding to their biological sex, which she called \u201cthe strongest bill in the nation to protect girl\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noem garnered heavy criticism from some Republicans for vetoing previous legislation on transgender participation in sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/20\/south-dakota-noem-reworked-bill-biological-males-womens-sports-special-session\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling<\/a> it \u201cvague and overly broad language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also lambasted President Joe Biden for creating an \u201cemboldened Putin\u201d and \u201ccrippling our domestic energy supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A potential 2024 contender, Noem finished third in the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/20\/ron-desantis-leads-2024-straw-poll-donald-trump-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">straw poll<\/a>, behind only Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but her portion of the vote <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/27\/donald-trump-wins-cpac-straw-poll-second-straight-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped<\/a> from 4% to 1.2% in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/27\/donald-trump-wins-cpac-straw-poll-second-straight-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2022 poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An advance copy of Noem\u2019s speech did not include any reference to former President Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/noems-vision-for-future-of-gop-focuses-more-on-reagan-than-trump-11649235601?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Wall Street Journal. She told the outlet that she did not \u201cspecifically mention\u201d Trump in the speech and that the Republican Party was not necessarily centered around one person.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7405071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7405071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Governor-elect Ron DeSantis sits next to U.S. President Donald Trump and Governor of South Dakota-elect Kristi Noem during a meeting with Governors elects in the Cabinet Room at the White House on December 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the podium on Wednesday, however, the governor heaped praise on Trump\u2019s accomplishments and spoke of how she campaigned for his reelection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than any other governor in America, I traveled to 17 states to campaign for President Trump\u2019s reelection efforts,\u201d Noem said at the podium. \u201cI knew that elections have consequences and I did not want to wake up and have a leader who wouldn\u2019t put America first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis administration restored America\u2019s dominance on the world stage, made us energy independent, feared our adversaries and we were respected by our allies,\u201d she continued. \u201cHe created an economy, pre-pandemic, that was one of the strongest this nation has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noem\u2019s campaign manager, Joe Desilets, told the DCNF that the WSJ only saw an early draft of the speech and that updates had been made \u201cevery day\u201d since it was handed to the outlet. He said the addition of the Trump section was made prior to the article\u2019s publishing and that no one from the former president\u2019s team reached out about the speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot sure why the reporter tried to manufacture some drama with his framing,\u201d Desilets said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll let Governor Noem\u2019s words speak for themselves,\u201d Ian Fury, Noem\u2019s communications director, told the DCNF in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem laid out her vision for the Republican Party in a speech Wednesday night amid speculation she could launch a campaign for president in 2024.Noem, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}