Doug Burgum Suspends 2024 Presidential Campaign


MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - AUGUST 23: Republican presidential candidate, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum participates in the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by FOX News at the Fiserv Forum on August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Eight presidential hopefuls squared off in the first Republican debate as former U.S. President Donald Trump, currently facing indictments in four locations, declined to participate in the event. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum participates in the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by FOX News at the Fiserv Forum on August 23, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

OAN’s James Meyers
10:04 AM – Monday, December 4, 2023

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has officially pulled out of the running to become the GOP nominee for president.

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The announcement was made on Monday by Burgum (R-N.D.) after he failed to qualify for the most recent Republican nomination candidate debates.

“The RNC’s clubhouse debate requirements are nationalizing the primary process and taking the power of democracy away from the engaged, thoughtful citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire,” Burgum said.

“The RNC’s mission is to win elections,” he continued. “It is not their mission to reduce competition and restrict fresh ideas by ‘narrowing the field’ months before the Iowa caucuses or the first in the nation New Hampshire primary. These arbitrary criteria ensure advantages for candidates from major media markets on the coasts versus America’s Heartland.”

However, Burgum claimed that the current debate criteria should not be the standard to serve as president, saying that the “effort to nationalize the primary system” was unhealthy for the “future of the party, especially for a party that proclaims to value leadership from outside of Washington.”

The announcement by the North Dakota governor comes after saying during a recent visit in Des Moines, Iowa that he would not suspend his campaign before New Hampshire’s GOP primary on January 23, 2024. 

“We’re going through all the effort to get our name on all 50 state ballots,” he said at the time. “Iowa, New Hampshire, absolutely positively. We’re going to be here. We’re going to be campaigning in Iowa camping and New Hampshire. Voters get to decide not pundits.”

In 2020, Burgum had won a second term as North Dakota governor, gaining 66% of the vote and thus is eligible to seek a third term next year.

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