Kristi Noem's Vice President odds crash after she admitted killing her dog in a ... trends now
After South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admitted killing her dog and a family goat in her new book, her chances of becoming Donald Trump's vice president have completely crashed, according to an online betting market.
On Polymarket, where gamblers can bet on just about anything under the sun, Noem's self-admitted shooting of her 14-month-old wirehair pointer puppy has tanked her odds of being Trump's running mate to just 4 percent, way down from the 10 percent chance she had just this Thursday, Newsweek reported.
Bettors think South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has the best shot - a 22 percent chance - at becoming Trump's new right hand man, while New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance - long considered potential favorites for the VP slot - are sitting at 9 percent and 6 percent, respectively.
This comes as President Joe Biden has recently overtaken the GOP's assumed candidate Trump in the betting odds of who'll win the election, with people favoring the Democrat by a little over a percentage point.
Noem explains in her forthcoming book that she gunned down her own animals to show she's capable of dealing with anything that's 'difficult, messy and ugly.'
The book, titled No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, will be released on May 7.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem writes in her forthcoming book that she gunned down her own dog - and a family goat - in an effort to show she's capable of dealing with anything that's 'difficult, messy and ugly'
Among bettors, Tim Scott is by far and away the favorite to become Trump's vice president, while Noem has fallen out of favor in a short few days after admitting to killing her dog because it had an 'aggressive personality'
A Facebook picture shows South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem with a gun. In her forthcoming book she writes about Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer, that Noem shot at the gravel pit on her family property, moments before her children came home from school
In her book, Noem writes about the dog, named Cricket, that she shot at the gravel pit on her family property, moments before her children came home from school.
The dog, Noem claimed, had an 'aggressive personality' that couldn't be tamed - as evidenced by the fact that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt for being 'out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.'
Additionally when the South Dakota governor took Cricket with her to meet a local family the dog started killing the family's chickens like 'a trained assassin.'
According to a book excerpt obtained by the Guardian, Cricket 'grabbed one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.'
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