Gov. Doug Burgum (R-North Dakota) told SiriusXM. Breitbart News Saturday He said he was pleased that former President Donald Trump said he would like to serve if re-elected to the White House, but stressed that his focus is on governing North Dakota and electing the state's 45th president. did.
Burgum appeared on the show's 20-minute segment with host and Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle days after Trump's historic victory in the Iowa caucuses. President Trump said in his victory speech that he wanted the governor to be a “very important” part of a potential second administration. Breitbart News later reported that some people close to Mr. Trump were discussing him as a running mate and a cabinet candidate.
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Mr. Boyle told Mr. Burgum, who quit the campaign in December and ran in the Republican primary before endorsing Mr. Trump on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, that he would be Mr. Trump's deputy if the 45th president asked him to do so. I asked him if he wanted to be a presidential candidate or if he intended to serve as another president. ability if Trump wins the nomination and the general election and calls on Trump.
“Well, it's a great honor. What President Trump has said in the past and what he said that night is great, but you know, these are all hypotheticals, and now I'm in the greatest job in the world. I'm the governor of North Dakota.' And I'm very focused on my day-to-day job here,” Burgum said. “And we have to get President Trump… we have to get the nomination. We have to get him elected. We have a long way to go before these scenarios come true. there is.”
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The governor, who comes from the technology industry, stressed that he did not join the campaign to audition for a cabinet position.
“But when I ran this fall, I consistently said, 'Hey, I'm not running for Cabinet.' From that perspective, I'm running for other reasons. “I'm running because I also care about this country, especially the economic, energy, and national security issues that affect all Americans,” Burgum said.
“These are things we see all the time in North Dakota, a huge energy state, an overwhelming regulatory regime, unelected bureaucrats in the Biden administration who are trying to crush American energy and agriculture. , I understand that it is hurting small and medium-sized businesses,” he added. “And that's the fight I'm in and I'm going to continue to fight that fight here in North Dakota and help President Trump get the nomination and win the election in any way I can. That's my focus. ”
Mr. Boyle also asked Mr. Burgum to talk about his relationship with the former president and the time they spent together, flying from Iowa to New York on Trump Force I early Tuesday morning after Mr. Trump's landslide victory.
“Well, we first met in 2015 when he was campaigning in North Dakota. Since then, we've built a strong relationship,” Burgum said. . “We've agreed on a lot of policies. And from my experience as governor under President Trump and my experience as governor under Joe Biden, the two…couldn't be more different. No. It's like this day and night. One has the wind at his back and the other always has the wind in his face, so the relationship was very strong.”
Burgum noted that North Dakota First Lady Kathryn Burgum had attended numerous White House events for President Trump as he worked to combat the opioid crisis.
“Kathryn, North Dakota's first lady, has bravely shared her story across the country about her battle with addiction and recovery over the past 21 years, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Hazelton Betty Ford Company. “I'm a long way from my decades-long battle with addiction,” Burgum said. “But, you know, under President Trump, there was a lot of attention focused on trying to stop this opioid crisis. The first lady herself, at a time when the Trump administration was actually trying to do something. He attended over six events at the White House. Currently, under the Biden administration's open borders policy, our country has lost the equivalent of six Vietnamese people to overdose and illegal immigration in just three years. outnumbers the population of all six countries and New England states combined. It is completely uneconomic on any level and makes our country less safe. No family in this country I think this is another issue that concerns the first lady and the president because he struggles with addiction.”
Although President Trump took an early morning flight Tuesday to New York and filed for legal proceedings later that day, Burgum said the 45th president was working the entire time, as was his team.
“Nobody works harder than Donald Trump. The plane left Iowa in the middle of the night and landed at 3:30 a.m. after a two-and-a-half hour flight with time changes. During the flight, President Trump… “I never missed a minute of work,” Burgum recalled. “That was impressive. Then he had to get up the next day and work all day until he went to New Hampshire the next night.”
“Everyone on that plane, I'm sure there were 35 to 40 of them, all working nose down and following the hardest working boss of them all. It's just impressive. “Because I know, 'He brought that work ethic with him every day when he was president,'” he added.
Burgum admitted that toward the end of the flight, he had been indulging in entertainment, specifically President Trump's Spotify playlist. Burgum said Trump has “great taste in music.”
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