Brian Bengs for U.S. Senate

Endorsed by VoteROI as a long-shot Senate race worth the fight.

This is a critical moment in this race.

Brian Bengs is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former military prosecutor running for the U.S. Senate in South Dakota. He took on the establishment in 2022 with a serious, substantive campaign and is back to make South Dakota a real contest. VoteROI is endorsing this race because every competitive Senate seat — no matter the label — forces the incumbent to defend ground they expected to win for free.

✓Air Force JAG veteran with 25 years of military service
✓Already ran a statewide campaign — name recognition and infrastructure carry forward
✓Every dollar in South Dakota forces the GOP to defend ground they expected to win for free

Why this race

South Dakota is not on most national donors’ radar, which is exactly the problem. Senate control turns on the cumulative pressure of every race, including the ones that look hard on paper. A funded, organized challenger in South Dakota pulls Republican money and attention away from the toss-ups in North Carolina, Maine, and Arizona — that is how the Senate map actually moves. Bengs has run before, knows the state, and is the kind of candidate who shows up at every county fair and answers every question. Early money funds field operations across long distances, helps a rural-state campaign hire staff that no national committee will ever send, and tells South Dakota voters that someone in the lower 48 is paying attention. This is the donation that nobody else is going to make.

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