Doug Burgum out to beat ‘lowest expectations,’ decries dropout pressure

The Hill ^ | 11/21/2023 | Diana Glebova

[ChicagoConservative27]

URBANDALE, Iowa — Longshot Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum insists he’s staying in the 2024 race at least long enough to “beat expectations” in January’s Iowa caucuses — a goal which he joked should be easy to meet, since he has “the lowest expectations.”

The billionaire North Dakota governor failed to qualify for the third RNC debate earlier this month, is unlikely to make the stage for the next debate Dec. 6 in Alabama, and is averaging just 2.7% support in the Hawkeye State, according to RealClearPolitics — a mere 44.3 percentage points behind former President Donald Trump.

So what, it may be fair to ask, is he still doing in this race?

[ChicagoConservative27]

It's time to stage left retard.

[rdl6989]

Who?

[thegagline]

Burgum is most most fiscally conservative candidate in the Republican Party. He is also calling for militarization of the southern border.

[lee martell]

I thought he left the race shortly after Labor Day.
I guess not.
Nobody is fooled by that phrase “Suspending my campaign”

[bigbob]

Can’t accept that nobody lies him

[vikingd00d]

>>So what, it may be fair to ask, is he still doing in this race?

Running for Vice President, like all the other non-Trump “candidates”.

[Nervous Tick]

Burgum is a dangerous climatista. That doesn’t translate to any sort of fiscal responsibility.

[wiseprince]

Trump should stage a debate with him on the same debate as the jr debate. No doubt it would draw much bigger numbers. Only thing is Bergum appeals to a similar group as Trump. I think it’d be an interesting risk to take. Have a friendly discussion with Vivek and Burgum and let Haley, Christie and Desanctimonius debate each other. Who would draw a bigger audience?

[thegagline]

Burgum is a dangerous climatista. That doesn’t translate to any sort of fiscal responsibility.

False beyond redemption.Here are Burgum’s actual positions on energy and the environment

Biden's climate policy is existential threat to America. (Sep 2023)
Don't just trade Mideast OPEC with China's Sinopec. (Aug 2023)
America being truly energy independent stabilizes the globe. (Jun 2023)
North Dakota takes and all-of-the-above approach. (Jan 2023)
Providing a viable path forward for coal has been a priority. (Jan 2023)
On our way toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 . (Jan 2023)
EPA rules infringed on state & Congressional authority. (Jun 2022)
Soybean oil can be refined into renewable green diesel fuel. (Feb 2022)
Clean coal will allow us to shape global energy policy. (Jan 2021)
Private sector innovation over regulation on carbon. (Jan 2020)<
Lignite (brown coal) is transforming power plant emissions. (Jan 2019)
On energy, all of the above. (Jan 2018)
Protest campers at Dakota Access Pipeline should leave. (Feb 2017)
We are not running out of oil; we have a global surplus. (Jan 2016)

[Nervous Tick]

You left off “take citizens’ land for wacky carbon sequester pipelines and stuff”.

And if you widen your research to include sources other than Burgum’s own puffery, you come across interesting items like this:

https://news.prairiepublic.org/local-news/2021-05-12/burgum-nd-carbon-neutral-by-2030

“Carbon neutral by 2030” is absolutely climatista territory. Fiscal conservative my ass.

[bigbob]

Burgum is obviously not convincing anyone...well ok maybe one...

[Aria]

I saw him talk to a group in New Hampshire - he had a lot of common sense and smart ideas and solutions for problems.

He built up Great Plains Software into a multi-billion company that Microsoft bought and he worked at MSFT in Seattle before going back to North Dakota to become governor.

He is my cousin. My side of the family left the awful winters in ND and moved to San Diego but obviously he is tough enough to endure the winters with the great plains covered in snow.

[thegagline]

You purposely left out the integral detail: ”In an interview after his speech, Burgum said it would not be done by regulation, but by innovation, and by driving capital investments to the energy and agriculture industries.

[Nervous Tick]

That one finds ANYONE convincing, as long as they aren’t President Trump.
😉😂

[1Old Pro]

Burgum is most most fiscally conservative candidate in the Republican Party. He is also calling for militarization of the southern border.

Time to follow the Ben Carson model, get out and get behind Trump and if you want a position in his administration and deserve it you'll probably get it.

[Nervous Tick]

Yeah, I saw that crapola — and I happen to understand what it means: rape rural areas, kill beef production, and spend boatloads of “capital investment” extorted from taxpayers. It’s an evil dead end game that Burgum has embraced, and nothing but massive human hardship lies at the end of the road.