While major news networks have delved into the personal and political backgrounds of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, another 2024 Presidential candidate has yet to receive much media attention, despite an undeniably unique background. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum officially launched his campaign back in June, but the billionaire isn't as well-known nationallly as the governor of the state to his south, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
Noem's beauty-queen-pageant-winning appearance, loyaly to Trump and anti-lockdown approach to COVID-19 propelled her name to a national stage has stronger name recognition, despite the fact that she hasn't entered the 2024 race. Conversely, Burgrum qualified for the first GOP debate by earning 3% support in the Fox News Iowa poll, and an NBC poll taken earlier this summer showed that 90% of voters surveyed hadn't heard of Burgrum.
Before Burgum was elected as North Dakota's governor, he was an entreprenuer, investor and philanthropist. As a lifelong resident of North Dakota, he is graduated from North Dakota State University, and went on to earn his MBA at Stanford Univeristy.
Burgrum's business ventures have ranged from starting a chimney-sweeping service, to founding a software company [Great Plains Software] that was ultimately purchased by Microsoft, where Burgum served as Senior VP of Microsoft Business Solutions Group, a role he kept from 2001-2007. Burgum also served on several boards before being elected governor, including the Arthur Companies, Avalara, Atlassian, the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Intelligent InSites
During his term as governor, BWhile major news networks have delved into the personal and political backgrounds of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, another 2024 Presidential candidate has yet to receive much media attention, despite an undeniably unique background. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum officially launched his campaign back in June, but the billionaire isn't as well-known nationally as the governor of the state to his south, Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
Noem's beauty-queen-pageant-winning appearance, loyalty to Trump and anti-lockdown approach to COVID-19 propelled her name to a national stage has stronger name recognition, despite the fact that she hasn't entered the 2024 race. Conversely, Burgrum qualified for the first GOP debate by earning 3% support in the Fox News Iowa poll, and an NBC poll taken earlier this summer showed that 90% of voters surveyed hadn't heard of Burgrum.
Before Burgum was elected as North Dakota's governor, he was an entreprenuer, investor and philanthropist. As a lifelong resident of North Dakota, he is graduated from North Dakota State University, and went on to earn his MBA at Stanford University.
Burgum's business ventures have ranged from starting a chimney-sweeping service, to founding a software company [Great Plains Software] that was ultimately purchased by Microsoft, where Burgum served as Senior VP of Microsoft Business Solutions Group, a role he kept from 2001-2007. Burgum also served on several boards before being elected governor, including the Arthur Companies, Avalara, Atlassian, the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Intelligent InSites
Burgrum won his re-election by more than 40%, for the largest margin of victory in the country. During his term as governor, Burgrum has signed social conservative policies into law, including one of the country’s strictest post-Dobbs abortion laws, effectively banning abortion with exceptions up to six weeks in cases of rape, incest, or medical emergencies. He also signed a bill that banned gender-transition procedures for minors.
On environmental issues, Burgum has set a goal for North Dakota to become carbon-neutral by 2030. He plans to pursue this goal while maintaining a robust fossil fuel industry, through the use of carbon capture and storage technology to capture and sequester carbon dioxide in the state's geologic formations.
When it comes to nominee frontrunner Trump, Burgum told ABC News that he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, but he's running for president because "competition is good for the Republican Party, and voters are going to want some choices."
During an interview with John Dickerson at CBS News, Burgum outlined the priorities of his 2024 campaign.
"We're going to focus on three things: the economy, it's touching everybody right now, energy policy, that touches everybody right now and completely related to national security. Those three things are interrelated. And right now, we feel it's not just a course correction, but the Biden administration is 180 degrees in the wrong direction, on the economy, on energy policy and on national security."
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