North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum formally entered the 2024 GOP presidential primary Wednesday, becoming the 12th and likely last candidate to join the race. Burgum, 66, announced his candidacy in a Wa…
, saying Americans should ditch President Biden and seek “a new leader for a changing economy.”
“My hometown, Arthur, N.D., is a small farming community where woke was something you did at 5 a.m.,” Burgum wrote later in the piece. “After earning an M.B.A. from Stanford and working for a short time in Chicago at McKinsey & Co., I moved back home in 1983 and literally bet the farm to provide the seed capital for a startup, which we grew into a world-class company, Great Plains Software.”
The North Dakota governor is one of several long-shot candidates already polling in the low single digits, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Both Burgum and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have signed laws to ban abortions after six weeks and to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit.The pair are followed by former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley , former Vice President Mike Pence , biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramswamy and South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott . Other declared candidates include radio host Larry Elder and businessmen Perry Johnson and Ryan Binkley.
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