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 June 7 — when the governor declared his candidacy for president — through the end of the month, which marked the close of the April-June second quarter of 2023 fundraising. That figure, shared first with Fox News on Friday, included a $10.2 million personal investment from Burgum.