SLIP OF THE TONGUE?

Trump Fan Gov. Kristi Noem Refers to ‘the Biden Administration’

But her spokesperson insists she was not acknowledging that Joe Biden beat President Trump in the election.

It took a month, but even South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have given up on President Donald Trump’s fever dream of a second term. Noem is one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, but local station KELO noted that in a budget address on Tuesday she appeared to acknowledge Joe Biden had won the election. Discussing the state’s finances, the Republican said she “expects the road could be a little bit rough under the Biden administration with some of the policies that they’ve embraced.” But before we get too excited about a belated outbreak of sanity, KELO also reports that a spokesman for Noem later contacted the station to say she was not recognizing Biden as president-elect but instead referring to the potential that he could end up in the White House. Biden, of course, has already locked up the election: States have certified more than 270 electors for him and nearly every legal challenge filed by the Trump campaign and its hangers-on has been rejected, often with judges gobsmacked at Trump lawyers’ brazen efforts to subvert the election.