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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has said what she thinks should be the characteristics of a vice presidential candidate for former President Donald Trump this fall. And those characteristics sound very much like her. Noem — included by the GOP front-runner on his short list of potential running mates on Tuesday — told Lawrence Jones of Fox News in an interview published Friday that a needed characteristic of a Trump vice president is “somebody that actually is not part of the swamp.” The person also should be a business owner, she said, and “somebody who’s been a commander-in-chief, somebody w…