2023-07-31 20:22:23
Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota, here in late July 2023.
UNITED STATES – “Give me a dollar, I’ll give you back 20.” Here is the surprising idea of the Republican candidate for the american presidential Doug Burgum to participate in the first televised debate between the candidates for the republican primarywhich will take place on June 23 in Milwaukee.
To take part in this debate, which will allow lesser-known personalities in particular to have their moment of glory once morest Donald Trump dominating the polls, the Republican Party has decided that each contender for the White House should collect at least 40,000 unique donations, with a minimum of 200 donors in at least 20 states.
Achieving this goal can become a real problem for small candidates like Doug Burgum, governor of North Dakota and unknown to the vast majority of Americans outside his state. To be present at the debate, he therefore decided to offer $20 vouchers to 50,000 people who will donate at least one dollar to him.
A winning bet
A winning bet, since he announced on July 19 that he had fulfilled his contract. He will therefore be able to fight on television alongside former President Donald Trump, the Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis or the former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. A total of seven candidates are currently qualified.
If the technique of Doug Burgum questioned, in particular from a legal point of view, he defended himself on Sunday July 30 on FoxNews. ” These rules [du parti républicain] are made to prevent new faces, new ideas, entrepreneurs, innovators from emerging on the national scene”he estimated.
“When you put rules like these, obviously it favors people who have functions in the administration at the national level, who appear on TV, who are career politicians”, he regretted. And to justify: “When you start an online business, if you’re young, the first thing you do is promote on the Internet. That’s what we did. »
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Previously a great unknown in American politics, his strategy has already allowed him to acquire a small reputation in the media. Elected governor in 2016 to everyone’s surprise, Doug Burgum had never been elected before but was a wealthy entrepreneur. Conservative, he signed several anti-LGBT laws and one of the toughest laws onabortion in the United States. A poll by The Morning Consult gives him 1% of voting intentions in the Republican primary.
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