Presidential
Pennington County is home to the state's second largest city, Rapid City. Trump won the county by 27 points, with Harris only carrying a few precincts in the core of Rapid City. However, South Dakota Democrats did manage their one State House seat flip of 2024 in a Rapid City-based district, even as they lost a handful of seats across both legislative chambers
SD 26 was drawn to be a Native American opportunity seat in the south-central part of the state. However, since the inception of the Trump era, Republicans have made steady gains in the area, with Trump winning the district by 12.5 points in 2024. Harris's best areas were Native American-majority communities. Republicans flipped the seat at the State Senate level as Trump carried it