Campaign finance reform. Healthcare access. The cost of living. A dual-service veteran gets specific.
KOTA-TV in Rapid City aired a special interview with independent U.S. Senate candidate Brian Bengs, giving South Dakota voters a direct, unfiltered look at what he’s running on: getting big money out of politics, protecting healthcare access, and confronting the cost-of-living squeeze on working families.
The interview followed Bengs’ debate with his Democratic opponent — and true to form, Bengs described that exchange not as a partisan brawl but as a productive discussion between people who disagree. That’s what independent leadership sounds like. Brian Bengs served in both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel, then taught criminal justice to the next generation of South Dakotans. He’s spent his whole life in service of the Constitution, not a party.
South Dakotans have watched their politics become a one-party formality. Bengs is offering something different: a senator who does his own thinking and answers only to them. Coverage like KOTA’s is how that message reaches every corner of the state.
Watch and read the full KOTA-TV interview.
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