Kristi Noem thought the political world would be impressed by her story of executing a dog, but she seems to have misjudged her fellow Republicans — including, most critically, Donald Trump. In the span of a few days, the North Dakota governor reportedly tanked her shot at becoming Trump’s running mate when a section of her forthcoming memoir , obtained by the Guardian, described her decision to lead a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket to a gravel pit and shoot her dead. The pup was overly aggressive and bad at hunting, Noem wrote. RIP Cricket! But if Noem’s out, there...