Gov. Kristi Noem’s office says in an email that she is a victim of “conservative cancel culture,” adds that she is not caving to the NCAA but that “the bill picked a fight with the NCAA – a fight that renowned conservative legal experts advise Governor Noem that she will lose.”

More: “If conservative media would take 5 seconds to read past the knee-jerk headlines and actually understand Governor Noem’s position, they’d come to a very different realization.”