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Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is under fire after boasting in her new book that she killed her fourteen-month-old German wirehair pointer puppy Cricket, whom she described as “worthless” and “untrainable” as a hunting dog on her farm, after she didn’t obey commands on hunts and behaved aggressively around livestock. And the criticism isn’t just coming from Democrats, either. Some Republicans see this as the end of her prospects for higher office, too — in particular, as a potential running mate for former President Donald Trump. “You do not shoot an animal just because it doesn’t ‘hunt right,'” said…

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