Larry Rhoden
Nationalist
Republican
Governor
South Dakota
Current Position: Governor of South Dakota
Running For: Governor
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For property tax cuts; delivered largest property tax cut in South Dakota history reducing taxes by 25-45%
Health Care
- Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and supported defunding it
Education
- For replacing Common Core math with alternative curriculum
- For Trump's school choice initiatives
Civil Rights
- Against abortion; stopped harmful abortion pills from coming into South Dakota, protecting babies and mothers
- Against same-sex marriage
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For immigration enforcement; banned sanctuary cities and signed ICE agreements with Highway Patrol and Department of Corrections
- Against immigration amnesty
- Against Chinese purchases of American agricultural land and for investing in critical infrastructure protections against China
Public Safety
- For Second Amendment rights; made South Dakota the first state to eliminate suppressor regulations and protected college students' 2A rights
- For arming school volunteers and sponsored legislative finding that Founding Fathers gave individual citizens gun ownership rights
- For targeted crime and drug interdiction through Operation Prairie Thunder