Kristi Noem Flexes 2024 Muscles
Noem has apparently gotten the message that now is the time to fight and show Republicans she can be counted on. She made the media rounds and defended Trump’s right to contest the current results.
She also ripped into Mitt Romney, which is always a welcome sight. Republicans want to see the kind of two-faced fecklessness shown by the Utah Senator called out and Noem was up to the task.
That’s 100% correct. So many Republicans in Washington are eager to go back to the kind of faux decorum, knee bending act they got to do under President Obama. After all, it’s much easier when you don’t have to be accountable to voters by actually holding onto the White House. Mitt Romney did nearly everything he could to kneecap Donald Trump and is now pretending that Joe Biden is a great man of character, an assertion made most laughable by the fact that Biden once accused Romney of supporting slavery. So there’s that. But Romney epitomizes the do nothing, weak kneed establishment, always ready to take a punch from a Democrat while only returning fire against their own party. Noem sensed that and was willing to go public with her criticisms. That’s the kind of spunk and grit Trump supporters want to see as we move into a possible new era.
Unlike Nikki Haley, who I don’t think is a bad person or anything, Noem doesn’t mince words or hide behind vague platitudes. In that way, she and DeSantis are cut from the same cloth. DeSantis came out swinging the day after the election while most Republicans sat silently. He also took the media to task during the coronavirus spike in his state, always having his facts ready to go and the ability to deliver them in devastating fashion.