Billionaire-funded national groups seek to influence voters in South Dakota runoff election

By: Joshua Haiar

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: July 23, 2026

Words: 434

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Some of the political postcards mailed to South Dakota voters in the week ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for governor are financed by national groups that received all or most of their recent contributions from a Pennsylvania billionaire.

Federal Election Commission records show that the School Freedom Fund political action committee has raised $15 million since last year from billionaire and Republican mega-donor Jeffrey Yass, whose

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