South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, a contender for the spot of former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate, is under fire from Democrats and fellow members of the GOP after she admitted in her upcoming memoir that she shot and killed her 14-month-old dog for allegedly being "untrainable," as well as her family's goat for being "nasty and mean."
"She can't be VP now," Trump ally Laura Loomer wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "You can’t shoot your dog and then be VP."
Multiple Democratic governors, including Tim Walz of Minnesota, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Phil Murphy of New Jersey posted pictures of themselves with their dogs and the caption: "Post a picture with your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit."
