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Trump loyalists in South Dakota turn on home state senator

by Stephen Groves
| February 1, 2021 12:06 AM

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Longtime South Dakota Republican voter Jim Thompson is ready to leave the GOP, hoping that an exodus of Donald Trump supporters like him will punish the state's preeminent politician, Sen. John Thune, for defying Trump.

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