South Dakota’s journey to a historic runoff election

South Dakota’s first statewide runoff election is Tuesday. Leading up to the polls opening, Searchlight Report host Meghan O’Brien takes listeners back to the beginning of the campaigns for the Republican nomination for governor, through debates and polling and to the final days leading up to Election Day.After a close four-way race, political outsider Toby Doeden received 31% of the vote in June, and Gov. Larry Rhoden finished second with 25% of the vote. Because neither candidate secured 35% of the vote, a state law pushed the two into a runoff election.To learn more about the candidates, check out profiles on Toby Doeden and Gov. Larry Rhoden, past Searchlight report interviews with Doeden and Rhoden, and South Dakota Searchlight’s voter guide.