Plain Talk: What must Doug Burgum do to become a presidential contender?
MINOT, N.D. — In 2016, I covered the North Dakota Republican Party’s state convention alongside reporter Dave Weigel, then of The Washington Post, who currently works for Semafor .
Weigel and I watched a gubernatorial candidate and political newbie named Doug Burgum take third in the vote of convention delegates behind his fellow Republicans Rick Becker and Wayne Stenehjem.