North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announces 2024 presidential campaign

• A former software entrepreneur, Burgum has been governor of North Dakota since 2016, winning re-election in 2020.

Driving the news: Burgum announced his candidacy in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, noting he'd "literally bet the farm" back in the 1980s to help launch the software company that built his fortune.

Burgum's campaign released a video Monday previewing a Wednesday campaign announcement.

• "A kid from small-town North Dakota. That's America," Burgum said in the video, which also touts his background as a "small-town boy, turned self-made world-class business leader. "
• "Anger, yelling, infighting, that's not going to cut it anymore," Burgum said. "Let's get things done."
• “I grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota. Woke was what you did at 5 a.m. to start the day,” he said in the video.

State of play: Burgum does not have the national recognition as some of his competitors, but earlier this year he told The Forum, a news site in Fargo, North Dakota, that voters are "yearning for some alternatives right now."

• "All the engagement right now is occurring on the edge," he said.
• Burgum started Great Plains Software in 1983, which was later acquired by Microsoft in 2001.

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