BISMARCK, N.D. – Governor Doug Burgum gave up his dark-horse campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The campaign had failed to gain much traction. Burgum, a billionaire software entrepreneur from Fargo, has been governor of North Dakota, the nation’s 47th least populous state, since 2016. Current polls show these as the GOP front-runners:
> Donald Trump. former president and the defeated GOP candidate in 2020.
> Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida.
> Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United and former governor of South Carolina.