Ballot Battles and Republican Breakups

Back again! Murdoc is flying solo with a heavyweight bench as Sen. Casey Crabtree, Tim Rave and South Dakota Searchlight’s Seth Tupper jump into the four constitutional amendments headed for South Dakota voters. Amendment I sparks the biggest fight, with Crabtree and Rave taking opposite sides on what happens to Medicaid expansion if the federal match drops below 90 percent. Plus, Amendment L’s 60 percent threshold gets a look, Tupper digs into the surprisingly murky numbers behind mail-in ballots, and the crew finds out thousands of South Dakota habitat plates may not be putting a dime toward habitat conservation.

Then the knives come out inside the GOP. The Freedom Caucus fires back at Rep. Scott Odenbach over his post-primary assessment of the party, setting off a conversation about Republican infighting, voter turnout and what the new legislative landscape could look like in Pierre. And on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the show closes on a different note as Murdoc, Crabtree and Tupper remember where they were, how the country changed and what Patriot Day means a generation later.

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