Kristi Noem’s Vice President odds crash after she admitted killing her dog in a pit while her kids were at school

After South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admitted in her new book to killing her dog and a family goat, her chances of becoming Donald Trump’s vice president have completely crashed, according to an online betting market.

On Polymarktwhere bettors can bet on just about anything under the sun, Noem’s self-admitted shooting of her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer puppy has cut her odds of becoming Trump’s running mate to just 4 percent, far lower than the 10 percent chance that she just had this Thursday, Newsweek reported.

Bettors think Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has the best chance – a 22 percent chance – of becoming Trump’s next right-hand man, while Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York and Senator JD Vance of Ohio – long considered potential favorites for the VP slot – standing at nine. 6 percent and 6 percent respectively.

This comes as President Joe Biden recently overtook the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee Trump in betting odds on who will win the election, with people favoring the Democrat by just over a percentage point.

Noem explains in her upcoming book that she shot her own animals to demonstrate her ability to deal with all that is “difficult, messy and ugly.”

The book, titled No Turning Back: The Truth About What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forwardwill be released on May 7.

In her book, Noem writes about the dog, named Cricket, that she shot in the gravel pit on her family’s property just before her children came home from school.

The dog, Noem claimed, had an “aggressive personality” that could not be tamed – as evidenced by Cricket ruining a pheasant hunt because he was “crazy with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time for her.” to live.’

Furthermore, when the governor of South Dakota took Cricket to meet a local family, the dog began killing the family’s chickens like “a trained killer.”

According to a book excerpt obtained by the GuardianCricket “took one chicken at a time, crunched it to death with one bite, then dropped it to attack another.”

When Noem finally got the dog, she wrote that Cricket “twisted around trying to bite me.”

Cricket was ‘the epitome of pure joy.’ Meanwhile, the owner of the chickens was crying.

Noem said she wrote a check “for the price they asked and helped them clean up the carcasses at the scene of the crime.”

“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, believing the fourteen-month-old pooch was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came into contact with,” and “less than worthless… as a hunting dog.”

So she decided to kill Cricket.

“At that moment,” the governor wrote. “I realized I had to put her down.”

She shot Cricket in the family’s gravel pit.

“It wasn’t a fun job,” Noem said, “but it had to be done. And when it was over, I realized there was still a nasty job to be done.”

Noem also decided to get rid of the family goat because it was “filthy and mean,” as it remained unneutered and smelled “disgusting, musky.” [and] rancid’ and ‘liked to chase’ the governor’s children.

She also “dragged him to the gravel pit,” but the goat jumped up when she tried to shoot him, keeping him alive for a moment.

Noem said she had to go back to her truck to pick up another grenade and “then rushed back to the gravel pit and dropped it off.”

Her actions were witnessed, she said, by a construction crew working nearby.

Moments later the bus dropped off her children.

“Kennedy looked around in confusion,” Noem recalled of her daughter, who asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

Noem then admitted, “If I were a better politician, I wouldn’t be telling the story here.”

On Friday, the internet was buzzing with reactions to her story.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a harsh Trump critic and former White House communications director, wrote on

“I’m a dog lover and I’m honestly shocked by Kristi Noem’s clip. I wish I hadn’t even read it. A 14 month old dog is still a puppy and can be trained.

“A big part of bad behavior in dogs is not properly training the people responsible for them,” Griffin wrote.

Rick Wilson, one of the co-founders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Noem “trash.”

“Decades with hunting and bird dogs, and the number I’ve killed because they were chicken-sharp or had too much prey drive is ZERO,” he noted.

‘Puppies need slow exposure to birds and the smell of birds. She killed a puppy because she was lazy at training bird dogs, not because it was a bad dog. Not every dog ​​is for the field, but 99.9% of them are trainable or rehomeable,” he said. “We have one now that never went into the field, but I didn’t kill her. She sleeps on the couch.”

Wilson said old dogs, injured dogs and sick dogs should be humanely put down “not by shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit.”

“Unsportsmanlike and deliberately cruel … but she wrote this to prove that it was cruelty,” Wilson said.