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BRIAN: ONE OF THE WORLD BIGGEST
MOTORCYCLE EVENTS LABELED BY THE
LEFT AS A SUPER SPUTTER EVENT
FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A
BRAND-NEW DATA REVEALING THAT
WAS NOT THE CASE.
MORE THAN 460,000 ATTENDED THE
TEN DAY STIR JUST RALLY IN SOUTH
DAKOTA LAST YEAR WHEN REPORTS
CLAIMED MORE THAN 206 TO 6000
GOT COVID.
THAT’S A FAR CRY FROM THE NEW
RESEARCH SHOWING IT WAS ACTUALLY
163.
SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI
NOEM NEVER BOUGHT THAT AND SEES
THE NEW NUMBERS AND WANTS TO
TALK ABOUT IT.
WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW
ABOUT THE STURGIS RALLY IN
AUGUST?
>> THAT THE MEDIA LIED ABOUT THE
EVENT FOR A YEAR THEY LABELED IT
AS A SUPER SPREADER AND THAT WAS
NOT TRUE.
WE CONTINUOUSLY PUSH BACK AND
I’M GLAD THAT SOME OF THOSE
FACTS ARE COMING TO LIGHT TODAY.
BRIAN: IT WENT TO 39 STATES AND ESTHER HELPED TO PARMESAN CAME
ESTHER HELPED TO PARMESAN CAME
BACK WITH THOSE OUTRAGEOUS
NUMBERS.
WAS THAT ALL POLITICAL?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
ALL POLITICAL.
WE DID TESTING IN THAT COMMUNITY
FOR WEEKS AFTERWARDS AND WE
REACH OUT TO EVERY STATE THAT WE
HAD VISITORS FROM AND DID OUR
OWN DATA COLLECTION AND TRIED TO
HOLD SOME ACCOUNTABILITY OUT
THERE BUT BRIAN, YOU KNOW THAT
ONCE THESE LIBERAL MEDIA
OUTLETS, THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO
ATTACK POLICIES OF THE STATES
LIKE US THAT ARE FREE THAT THEY
WILL JUST CONTINUE TO PERPETUATE
THAT NARRATIVE SO I AM THANKFUL
THAT THEY ARE CONTINUING TO GET
MORE AND MORE OF THE REAL FACTS
OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE STURGIS
MOTORCYCLE RALLY BEFORE PEOPLE
COME AGAIN THIS YEAR.
WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO AN EVEN
BIGGER CROWD.
BRIAN: AS GOVERNOR YOU MENTIONED
YOUR CASES ARE SO LOW YOU GOT
ABOUT 100 CASES IN THE ENTIRE
STATE IN HER KIDS ARE BACK IN
SCHOOL AND THAT’S NOT THE CASE
WITH THE STATE THAT HAS LOWER
NUMBERS THAN YOU AND THAT IS
CALIFORNIA.
THEY ARE STILL NOT BACK IN
SCHOOL.
IT IS STUNNING YET IF YOU LOOK
AT TWO GOVERNORS YOU ARE THE ONE
GETTING THE MOST OUTSIDE
CRITICISM, RIGHT?
>> IT HAS BEEN CONSISTENT OVER
THE LAST YEAR THAT I’VE BEEN
GETTING BEAT UP IN THE NATIONAL
MEDIA BUT OUR KIDS HAVE BEEN IN
SCHOOL ALL YEAR AND THEY ARE
DOING WELL.
WE ARE THE FASTEST GROWING
ECONOMY IN THE COUNTRY AND THE
LOWEST ON THE EMPLOYMENT RATE
AND ARE ACTIVE CASES ARE DOWN
AND WE’VE GOT INCREDIBLE
HOSPITAL CAPACITY SHOULD BE
NEEDED SO OUR PEOPLE HAVE
MANAGED THROUGH THIS CRISIS IN A
WAY THAT I THINK IS REALLY A
TESTIMONY TO WHAT REPUBLICAN
CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES AND
VALUES ARE AND HOW THEY DO TAKE
CARE OF PEOPLE AND CREATE AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO STILL
BE SUCCESSFUL.
BRIAN: A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO NEW
YORK TIMES PUT OUT A SERIES
CALLED THE 6019 PROJECT AND THEY
TALK ABOUT HOW AMERICA STARTED
WHEN SLAVERY CAME TO NORTH
AMERICA IN 1619, NOT 1776.
NOW THERE’S INCENTIVES COMING
FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF
YOU PUT THAT CURRICULUM AND
YOU’LL GET GRANTS.
HOW DO YOU IN SOUTH DAKOTA FEEL
ABOUT THIS CURRICULUM CHANGE?
>> I HATE IT.
THE 1619 PROJECT IS A LIE.
THAT IS WHY I WAS THE FIRST
CANDIDATE IN THE COUNTRY TO SIGN
THE 1776 PLEDGE WHICH SAYS THE
TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA’S HISTORY
THAT WE ARE FOUNDED FIGHTING FOR
FREEDOM, NOT BASED ON SLAVERY
AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERY
SINGLE PERSON RUNNING FOR PUBLIC
OFFICE, EVERY SINGLE LEADER IN
THIS COUNTRY TO EMBRACE THE 1776
PROJECT AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY
ARE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL
HISTORY OF AMERICA AND TEACHING
IT TO OUR KIDS AND IN OUR SCHOOL
SYSTEMS.
BRIAN: ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS IS
IN AT 1619 THEY SAY WE FOUGHT IN
1776 TO KEEP SLAVERY IN AMERICA
BECAUSE ENGLAND GOT RID OF IT IN
1772.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE AND IT DOES
NOT STAND UP TO THE TEST.
IN FACT, THEY WERE FIGHTING TO
GET FREE OF BRITISH CULTURE.
>> THAT’S EXACTLY RIGHT.
EXACTLY RIGHT, BRIAN.
THE 1619 PROJECT NEEDS TO BE
PUSHED BACK ON WITH CRITICAL
RACE THEORY.
IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR OUR
KIDS TO LEARN AND TO HAVE IN OUR
SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
WE WANT OUR HONEST HISTORY, REAL
HISTORY, PATRIOTIC HISTORY TO BE
TAUGHT TO OUR KIDS SO THAT WE
CONTINUE TO PROTECT AMERICA.
IT’S A MOST SPECIAL COUNTRY IN
THE WORLD AND IT IS SOMETHING
THAT OUR KIDS DESERVE TO HAVE
LONG INTO THE FUTURE THAT WE HAD
THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW UP AND.
BRIAN: IT IS A COLUMN HE WROTE
WITH BEN CARSON AND ON FOXNEWS
.COM RIGHT NOW.
GOVERNOR, AS MUCH POWER AS YOU
HAVE YOU CANNOT JUST SAY THIS IS
THE RULE THAT YOU HAVE TO SELL
THE BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN ALL
YOUR CITIES, CORRECT?
HOW CLOSE ARE YOU TWO DOING
THAT?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA WE TALKED ABOUT
THIS FOR YEARS.
WHEN I FIRST GOT SWORN IN AS
GOVERNOR I PUSHED GETTING MORE
HISTORIES, CIVICS EDUCATION INTO
OUR K-12 SYSTEM AND WE DID
FINALLY GET OUR LEGISLATOR ON
BOARD AND THEY PUT THAT INTO OUR
REQUIREMENTS THIS YEAR.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT IN
SOUTH DAKOTA.
I BELIEVE A STATE LIKE US CAN
LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND I WILL
CONTINUE TO DO THAT AND CARRY
THE MESSAGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AS WELL.
BRIAN: IT’S AMAZING WHAT IT’S
GOT TO COME DOWN TO THAT YOU