My son, who lives in Texas, exchanges frequent emails with a friend from high school, who now lives in Fargo area and is politically active on the local level. Friend said there are a lot of similarities between Burgum and Trump. He cannot be financially bought, is incredibly high energy, openly displayed disgust with the GOPe, has no record but appeared trustworthy. He is pro 2nd amendment, believes in controlling expenses and is anti-taxes. Lots of fence mending to do with state Republicans.
Also said he had a lot of friends in the oil patch who had never voted before but voted this time and lots of Democrats crossing over.
This guy is actually my relative....honestly. We just don’t know each other. Burgum was my grandmother’s maiden name.