{"id":272892,"date":"2023-06-07T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=272892"},"modified":"2023-06-08T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T11:57:56","slug":"burgum-announces-run-for-president-june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=272892","title":{"rendered":"Governor Burgum Announces Run for President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FARGO \u2014 KFGO, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum highlighted his small-town roots and business experience as he announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday in downtown Fargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum, 66, joins a long list of contenders hoping to dent former President Donald Trump\u2019s early lead in the race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that small-town values have guided me my entire life,\u201d Burgum, who grew up in Arthur, North Dakota, told the crowd. \u201cAnd frankly, big cities could use more ideas and more values from small towns right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum spoke under a sign declaring him \u201cA new leader for a changing economy,\u201d echoing a slogan he first used as his successful 2016 gubernatorial campaign. Reelected in 2020, he\u2019s eligible to run for a third time in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1983, he founded Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001, and Burgum stayed on as a Microsoft vice president until 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement was attended by many prominent North Dakota Republicans, including two former governors and top state lawmakers. Many posed for pictures in front of the red, white and blue \u201cDoug Burgum for America\u201d sign above the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known to few outside North Dakota, Burgum faces an immense challenge in a field dominated by Trump and Ron DeSantis of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four hundred miles to the south, former Vice President Mike Pence was launching his White House bid in Iowa, taking on the president he served loyally for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum plans to visit early voting states right away. He will campaign Thursday and Friday in Iowa, home of the first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses, and Saturday and Sunday in New Hampshire, which hosts the first GOP primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a video previewing his announcement, Burgum portrayed himself as a common-sense, rural state conservative, distinctly experienced in energy policy and far removed from the bitter war of words between Trump and DeSantis as the 2024 GOP campaign heats up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnger, yelling, infighting, that\u2019s not going to cut it anymore,\u201d Burgum said in the video. \u201cLet\u2019s get things done. In North Dakota, we listen with respect, and we talk things out. That\u2019s how we can get America back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new laws he signed this year include banning abortion with few exceptions up to six weeks\u2019 gestation, before most women know they are pregnant. Other laws prohibit schools and government agencies from requiring their employees to refer to transgender people by the pronouns they use, as well as barring transgender girls and women from competing in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His preview video also touched subtly on his opposition to \u201cwoke\u201d ideology, a catch-all term that conservatives use derogatorily to refer to policies or ideas that acknowledge the existence of social injustice and racial inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cWoke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burgum enters the race with a more advanced background in energy policy than most of the Republican field in light of North Dakota\u2019s decadelong petroleum industry boom, and his administration\u2019s effort to capture carbon dioxide from around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of shutting down American oil and gas, we should unleash energy production,\u201d he said in the video, \u201cand start selling energy to our allies, instead of buying it from our enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Trump, DeSantis and Pence, Burgum will be facing off against former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, anti-woke activist Vivek Ramaswamy, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder and businessman Perry Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GOP nominee is expected to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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