Gov. Doug Burgum's Run for President

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On this episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, Paul Gigot speaks with North Dakota Governor and 2024 GOP Presidential candidate Doug Burgum about how energy policy failures led to the war in Ukraine, why a flat tax would make sense for Washington, if sanctions should continue on Russian oil, and why a Jan. 6 riot would not happen during a Burgum administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:34.5	Welcome I'm Paul Gigo with the opinion pages of Wall Street Journal and welcome to another
0:40.0	edition of Potomac Watch, our guest today, Doug Bergam, governor of North Dakota and also
0:44.7	a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
0:48.1	He's one of the founders of Great Plane Software which he sold to Microsoft for $1.1 billion
0:54.1	elected governor in 2016, reelected in 2020 with about two thirds of the vote.
0:59.7	And now at age 66, running for president of the United States.
1:03.2	Welcome, governor Bergam.
1:04.2	Great to be here.
1:05.2	Certainly you were surprised for a lot of people when you announced that you were going
1:09.3	to run for president, North Dakota, not exactly the hotbed of presidential candidacies.
1:15.5	And I think a lot of people are wondering, why do you think you have a chance to win this
1:20.5	nomination?
1:21.6	Well, North Dakota is the hotbed of small town values.
1:25.4	It's the hotbed of innovation.
1:27.4	It's the hotbed right now of a great economy.
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