So, Joe, do you think that your governor wants to be president?

Yes.

You're so just like, yes, flat out.

I don't know how you wouldn't come to that conclusion after kind of watching the last 18 months.

Joe Sneevy covers Governor Christy Noem for the Argus leader in South Dakota.

You sound a little exhausted when you say this.

Yeah, well, I've been covering it, you know, for about a year, pretty nonstop.

And trying to keep up with it. It's kind of exhausting.

Over the last year, Governor Noome has gotten a lot of attention for these speeches she'll give

to rooms full of Republican supporters, bragging she never shut down her state. COVID-be-dammed.

She's been showing up to Gladhand in Iowa, giving speeches at CPAC.

I mean, she travels a lot. She's constantly making noise on Twitter.

She's certainly not micromanaging the state departments, if that's a good way to put it.

All this exhausts Joe. Not so much because of all the Miles reporters like him have to travel, just to keep up with her governor.

His exhaustion is more about the way she's running, with a brute force.

It sometimes blows back on Joe himself.

Like back in February, when Noam called on Joe at a press conference,

he was trying to ask her about shifting guidance on masks from the Centers for Disease Control.

Joe?

You've been resistant to implement mask mandates.

You're skeptical of their efficacy at times.

I never said that, Joe.

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