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FIRST ON FOX — North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum is spotlighting his opposition to President Biden’s energy policies as he runs for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“We should be selling energy to our allies instead of buying it from our enemies. But Joe Biden has shut down our oil and gas production,” Burgum said in a new ad first shared with Fox News on Thursday.
And Burgum, a former CEO of a software company who became governor of his home state for two terms, argues that “true energy independence will lower gas prices, unleash the economy and strengthen national security. In North Dakota, we call that a good idea.”
Burgum’s campaign tells Fox News it will spend more than $1.2 million to run the TV and digital spot starting Thursday statewide in Iowa and New Hampshire, which will see the first two games in the GOP presidential nomination calendar. are held.
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Energy, economics and national security are the three critical issues Burgum is turning the spotlight on as he campaigns on the black horse for the White House.
“We run because we want to unleash the American economy and we want to improve every American life and the way we do that is, of course, to really get our economy rolling. To really get our economy rolling, we have to” Make sure we have to make sure we have energy policies that are 180 degrees different from the policies we have under the Biden administration. If we correct energy policies, we have a chance to really stabilize the world,” Burgum argued in a Fox Digital interview as he launched his campaign.
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And he charged that Biden’s energy policy “allows dictators like Putin to invade Ukraine.”
Since taking office in 2021, Biden and his administration have pursued an aggressive climate agenda to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and encourage green energy alternatives.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and Preserve in Palo Alto, California, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Biden spoke about climate change, clean energy jobs and protecting the environment. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)
Burgum, pointing to US relations with China, stressed in a Fox Business interview last week that “we have to start our energy game because that’s actually the way to have power. We are a superpower in energy and whoever is the superpower in energy will rule the world.”
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And taking to Twitter last weekend, the governor argued that “the Biden administration wants to separate energy from national security — but things just don’t work that way. The world will become a much safer place when America regains true energy independence .”
While far from a household name outside of North Dakota, Burgum is entering the 2024 presidential race as one of the wealthiest members of the Republican field, along with multimillionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former President Donald Trump, who is the commanding frontrunner in the latest Republican primary as he makes his third consecutive White House run.
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Asked how much of his own money he will invest in his 2024 campaign, Burgum declined to give a dollar figure, but told Fox Digital earlier this month that “in every other venture I’ve started, I’ve been willing to invest in myself and I would don’t ask donors to invest in this race if they didn’t know I was investing in myself.”
Burgum seems to be keeping that promise — as his campaign says, the new ad buy brings their spend on running spots to more than $4 million.
Paul Steinhauser is a political reporter from New Hampshire.
