Marty Jackley

• ✓SupportsExpand immigration enforcement and deportations

  Calls for securing the border, finishing the border wall, and says he has prosecuted traffickers who bring drugs across it.[3]

  “Secure the border, finish the wall, and let law enforcement do its job.”

• ✕OpposesStricter gun laws

  Says the right to keep and bear arms is not negotiable and cites an A+ rating from the NRA.[3]

  “The right to keep and bear arms is not negotiable.”

• ✓SupportsIncrease police funding and staffing

  Says he will back police, sheriffs and prosecutors with the tools and respect they have earned.[3]

• Public safety: backing police, sheriffs and prosecutors, drawing on his career prosecuting violent crime as Attorney General.[3]
• Border and immigration: securing the border and "finishing the wall," citing his prosecution of drug traffickers.[3]
• Supporting the Trump administration's agenda, including securing the border and cutting taxes.[3]

• Earned a bachelor's degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (1992) and a law degree from the University of South Dakota (1995).[2]
• Worked as a partner at Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson & Ashmore, LLP, and as a special assistant attorney general for South Dakota.[2]
• Served as U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota from 2006 to 2009.[2]
• Has served as South Dakota Attorney General from 2009 to 2019 and again from 2023 to present; appointed to the office in 2009 and elected to it in 2010, 2014, and 2022.[2][3]

Raised $1.4M · spent $376K · $1.1M cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗