“People have lost trust in their state government,” Sutton, the leader of the Democratic Party in the state Senate, told HuffPost. “There’s a growing movement of frustration that the voters aren’t being listened to.”ASSOCIATED PRESS South Dakota state Sen. Billie Sutton is running a surprisingly strong campaign as the Democratic candidate for governor. South Dakota hasn’t elected a Democrat as governor in Sutton’s entire lifetime, and President Donald Trump won the state by 30 points in 2016. He also has mostly avoided controversies over the policies that normally doom Democrats in South Dakota, as he backs gun rights and is opposed to abortion. While his grandfather served in the Legislature from 1972 to 1978 before running unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor, Sutton was not interested in a political life.

Source: Huffington Post November 03, 2018 09:45 UTC