North Dakota’s Doug Burgum, a largely unknown governor, enters the GOP presidential primary as an underdog hoping to push the focus toward economic issues.
He convened a meeting at a ranch deep in the rolling hills of central North Dakota. Between working sessions, he said in a recent interview, he dispatched soon-to-be co-workers to mend fence posts, then had them saddle up and move cattle.
“I think of taxpayers like customers; I feel like I’ve got a duty to deliver value to them,” said Burgum, who worked at Microsoft after the acquisition of Great Plains Software and later founded a real estate development firm and a venture capital firm before he was elected governor in 2016. “The information cycle has created an appetite for candidates who are talking about trans women in sports, despite the fact that the impact on people’s lives is incredibly small,” Longwell said. “But for them, it’s emblematic of the thing that they think about from the bigger picture — which is that America is changing in these massive ways, that the culture is getting away from them.”
The North Dakota governor is most eager to tout his state’s economic growth, how he has revitalized its main streets, as well as policies that have made the state second in energy production per capita. He has also focused on his efforts to draw more talent to his state, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. That includes a $66 million
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