@TeaTootler @jimmybuffettfanaccount @sickburnbro That's Kristi Noem of South Dakota and we thought that ended or capped her political career. But the latest rumor, can't trust it of course, is that she's very high on the list of Trump's potential VP picks, he of course being a 1970s-80s NYC Democrat.
See also Ohio governor Mike DeWine, albeit very well known to be a RINO squish, and in that case his recent veto of a law forbidding "the American Tradition of Poisoning, Mutilating, and Sterilizing Children" was overridden.
This Montana governor Greg Gianforte did indeed do that as confirmed by Bing, see for example first link below. He's got a "non-binary" son who's in his early thirties constantly lobbying him on LGBTQUERTY issues and the state is Purple enough to still have one Democratic Senator.