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Brian Bengs
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Aligns his abortion stance with the Roe v. Wade framework: unrestricted access in the first trimester and through the point of viability, after which the state may impose restrictions — explicitly rejecting any personhood-from-conception standard.
- ontheissues.orgUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
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Bengs has not publicly opposed same-sex marriage and ran in 2022 under the Democratic Party banner, which formally supports marriage equality; no statement endorsing the one-man-one-woman definition of marriage appears in his 2022 or 2026 campaign materials.
- BallotpediaCenter
- bengsforsouthdakota.comUnclassified
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Bengs explicitly campaigns on 'Balance The Budget & Pay Down The Debt,' warning that 'just 25 years ago, we had a federal budget surplus & talked about potentially paying off the debt' and noting the national debt has grown to 20% above total U.S. annual GDP. His anti-deficit fiscal platform aligns with the rubric's anti-deficit/balanced-budget standard — even as his broader social and regulatory positions diverge from the rubric's God-First framework.
- BallotpediaCenter
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
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Bengs ran in 2022 as a Democrat and in 2026 as an independent, emphasizing broad voter participation and systemic reform over voter-ID requirements; his platform focuses on anti-corruption and term limits rather than the paper-ballot and ID guardrails the rubric requires.
- BallotpediaCenter
- southdakotasearchlight.comUnclassified
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In KELOLAND News interviews covering his 2022 Senate campaign and 2026 re-entry, Bengs focused exclusively on economic security for working-class South Dakotans — including advocacy for a windfall profit tax on oil companies — with no call for military border deployment or physical wall construction. As the 2022 South Dakota Democratic Senate nominee and a candidate running on a progressive economic platform, his position is consistent with the national Democratic Party's explicit opposition to border wall funding and military enforcement at the southern border, placing him against the rubric's requirement for a wall and military deployment to stop illegal crossings.
- keloland.comUnclassified
- keloland.comUnclassified
- BallotpediaCenter
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Bengs' 2026 independent campaign platform includes support for ending birthright citizenship — a position that aligns with the rubric's 'anti-birthright citizenship' standard, even though Bengs holds broadly centrist or left-leaning stances on other issues.
- BallotpediaCenter
- bengsforsouthdakota.comUnclassified
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Although a gun owner, Bengs stated he would vote for HR 8 (universal background checks for all firearm sales), supports red-flag laws, and favors raising the minimum age for certain firearms, acknowledging the NRA 'would probably not' rate him favorably — backing restrictions the rubric opposes.
- keloland.comUnclassified
- dakotafreepress.comUnclassified
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