2022 South Dakota Senate Election
News coverage of the South Dakota Senate election. John Thune has been the Senator from South Dakota since 2005. See their news, bias in the media coverage and more in our South Dakota election page. See other states and more information on our 2022 U.S. Senate page.
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John Thune
Top 2022 South Dakota Senate Election News
John Thune · South DakotaJohn Thune wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in South Dakota primary election. John Thune will face Democrat Amy Klobuchar in November election. Klubuchar is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Joe Biden. Thune is the son of former Sen. Robert Thune of South Dakota.See the Story
Thune glides to victory in South Dakota Senate primary
Coverage: 6 sources
Books · WashingtonSen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) that he would switch his party to Independent and caucus with the Republican Party if Thune were made the leader of the Senate GOP, accordin…See the Story
Manchin said he’d caucus with GOP if Thune were Senate leader: book
Coverage: 4 sources
John Thune · CharlotteSenator John Boozman (R-AR) is leading Senate legislation to block the Biden administration from diverting veterans resources to manage the crisis at the southern border. The legislation would prevent the Department of Veterans Affairs from prioritizing the needs of illegal immigrants over our nation's veterans.See the Story
Boozman, Colleagues Introduce Legislation Blocking Biden from Deploying Veterans Resources to Southern Border
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Latest 2022 South Dakota Senate Election News
John Thune · South DakotaSen. John Thune thinks parents, not the government ,should be in the driver's seat when it comes to masks and their children.See the Story
South Dakota senator moves to roll back child mask mandates
John ThuneWhen President Joe Biden spoke to a group of teachers last week, he revealed how Democrats view the relationship between schools, parents, and students. “[Students are] not someone else’s children, they’re like yours when they’re in the classroom,” he said.See the Story
Congress must check Biden's radical treatment of toddlers
100% Right coverage: 1 sources
John ThuneWashington, D.C. – NRSC Chairman Rick Scott released the following statement on Senator Chuck Grassley’s primary victory in Iowa. Statement from NRSC Chairman Rick Scott: “Congratulations to Chuck Grassley on his primary victory in Iowa tonight! Chuck wakes up each morning – a bit earlier than most to run – thinking about how he can fight to […]See the Story
Chairman Rick Scott Statement on Chuck Grassley’s Primary Victory
![[Opinion] Sen. John Thune says Americans need AR-15s to fend off ‘prairie dogs’](https://groundnews.b-cdn.net/extMedia/e78bedc87ffeda0b0576f917aefaa4cb610c1d02.jpg?width=320)
John ThuneThe Republican Party, resigned to never doing anything about gun violence as long as the money keeps pouring into their campaigns, have gotten lazier in their defense of assault-style, high-powered�...See the Story
[Opinion] Sen. John Thune says Americans need AR-15s to fend off ‘prairie dogs’
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
John Thune · South DakotaUnited States Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-South Dakota) triggered an avalanche of questions on Tuesday when he offered a tenuous defense of average citizens owning AR-15 semiautomatic rifles."In my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and, you know, other types of varmints," Thune told a gaggle of reporters at the Capitol. "And so I think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them.See the Story
Like using a 'bazooka to hunt squirrels': John Thune ridiculed for 'prairie dog' defense of AR-15 ownership
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
![[Opinion] CBS Fears Too Much Focus on Rights of Unborn in Abortion Debate](https://groundnews.b-cdn.net/assets/event_placeholders/headlines.jpg?width=320)
John Thune · South DakotaDuring an interview with Republican South Dakota Senator John Thune on Friday’s CBS Mornings, the hosts repeatedly pressed the GOP lawmaker on his pro-life positions. At one point, fill-in co-host Dana Jacobson even suggested that the abortion debate focused too much on the rights of unborn children and not enough on women.See the Story
[Opinion] CBS Fears Too Much Focus on Rights of Unborn in Abortion Debate
100% Right coverage: 1 sources
John Thune · South DakotaSouth Dakota Senator John Thune says the issue needs to be at the hands of the people and their elected officials. The Republican senator voted against a Democratic-led bill to protect abortion access on the federal level. Thune said Democrats "knew the bill was going to fail" but they are using the issue of abortion as a distraction to other issues.See the Story
South Dakota Senator John Thune says Democrats are using issue of abortion "to distract"
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
John Thune · South DakotaSenate Minority Whip John Thune, despite sparking the ire of former President Donald Trump, does not face a viable primary challenge to his reelection campaign.See the Story
South Dakota Sen. John Thune sparks ire of Trump but avoids viable GOP primary foe
100% Right coverage: 1 sources
John ThuneSenate Republican Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota immediately poured cold water on a just-passed House bill to help fight rising domestic terrorism, in the wake of his past weekend's massacre of ten Black people in Buffalo by a self-avowed white nationalist and antisemite and a California church shooting deemed a "politically motivated hate incident" by local law enforcement.See the Story
Second most-powerful Senate Republican says bill to fight domestic terrorism after Buffalo is too ‘partisan’ to pass
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
John ThuneSenator John Thune has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for email providers to block political campaigns from spam filters. The bill is based on a bogus, cooked up, deliberately misinterpreted-by-people-who-know-better controversy. The authors of the original study appear to be horrified about how their study is being abused by political hacks.See the Story
Ridiculous Republican Senators Introduce Law To Say Political Emails Can’t Be Filtered As Spam
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
Media Bias Breakdown
How is the media covering 2022 South Dakota Senate Election?2022 South Dakota Senate Election often is covered by Left Media sources.
Left: 42%
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Right: 27%
