North Dakota Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Doug Burgum had some lousy last-minute luck on Tuesday while playing a pick-up basketball game with his staff. Burgum sustained an injury that landed him in the hospital in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
The long-shot candidate is polling between 1-3%.
From Fox News:
His attendance at Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate on Fox News is now in question. Burgum’s campaign told Fox News Digital it is “unclear if he will be able to stand at the debate.”
Burgum is now out of the hospital, the campaign said.
Burgum is a dark horse in the race, lacking the name recognition that other candidates enjoy. He qualified for the debate by earning 3% support in the Fox Iowa poll, but has otherwise remained a relatively obscure figure in national politics.
Wednesday night’s debate is an opportunity for Burgum to grab more attention from GOP primary voters. The billionaire software entrepreneur has poured more than $10 million into the race from his own bank account, and spent $8 million in the last quarter alone.
Up to $760,000 of that spend went to donors who accepted his offer to send a $20 gift card to any $1+ donor, a ploy that saw him reach the fundraising threshold for the first debate in record time this cycle.
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