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FIRST ON FOX: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum told Fox News last week that when it comes to funding his dark-horse bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he'd "put dollars into this campaign." The multi-millionaire former software company CEO turned two-term governor wasn't kidding. Burgum's campaign reports raising $11.7 million in the 23 days from
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, is running for president. But he has a problem: Most voters don’t know who he is.Burgum has a solution for that—to make a splash on the debate stage. But there’s another problem: The Republican National Committee requires at least 40,000 individual donors a
GOP Presidential Candidate Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea to get on the debate stage. It may or may not be legal.
Republican presidential primary candidates like North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are offering incentives to small dollar donors.