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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum drops presidential bid after failing to qualify for fourth debate (www.politico.com)

submitted 11 months ago by JCPhoenix to c/politics

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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum dropped his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday after repeatedly polling in the single digits and failing to qualify for the third and fourth GOP debates.

In his statement, Burgum criticized the Republican National Committee’s “clubhouse debate requirements” that kept him from qualifying for November and December debates.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't this the guy that was buying donations to try and qualify?

[–] JCPhoenix 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's him.

The two-term governor made it to the debate stage twice, gaining some name recognition when he became the first candidate to offer $20 gift cards to those who contributed $1 to his campaign in an effort to hit the RNC’s qualifying rules that candidates must reach 40,000 individual donors.

I honestly didn't even know he pulled that stunt initially. Good lot that did him.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess he distributed some wealth at least. Whichever millionaire donor that backed him just got suckered out of like a million dollars worth of gift cards.

[–] JCPhoenix 2 points 11 months ago

While I'm sure Burgum has some backers, he himself is "independently" wealthy. He owned a software development company that he sold to Microsoft. So I wonder if he just bankrolled a lot of that himself.