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teeman Dana Randall of Aberdeen and National Committeewoman Mary Jean Jensen of Lemmon are automatic delegates to the party's national convention as members of the Republican National Committee.
• They declined to endorse anyone earlier in the year, saying they would support the candidate who won South Dakota's June 5 primary, which will choose the state's other 25 delegates to the Republican National Convention.
• But Randall and Jensen said they pledged their support to Romney after meeting him recently. And Rave said he supports Romney, but if one of the other candidates on the primary ballot happens to win, Rave would still vote for the victor at the convention.
• "I certainly at this point am a Romney supporter personally," Rave said Friday.
• Randall also said if someone other than Romney wins the state primary, he would vote for the primary winner. Romney, though, won his support after the former Massachusetts governor said he would seek unity with the candidates he defeated for the presidential nomination.
• "That's when I said it's time to join with him and move forward," Randall said.
• Jensen said she believes Romney can solve the nation's economic problems.
• "I told him I was on board," she said.
• Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are on South Dakota's Republican primary ballot, which was set before Santorum and Gingrich dropped out of the race. Delegates will be awarded according to the primary vote, but only those candidates who get more than 20 percent of the popular vote will win any of the 25 delegate positions at stake.
• South Dakota has no Democratic primary because President Barack Obama was the only Democratic candidate certified in the state.
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