MINOT — “Would you ever do business with Donald Trump?” NBC News reporter Chuck Todd asked Gov. Doug Burgum during a July 9, 2023, interview conducted roughly a month after he launched his presidential campaign last year.
“I don’t think so,” Burgum responded.
“Why?” Todd asked.
“I just think it’s important that you’re judged by the company you keep,” Burgum said.
Over 180 days later, Burgum made a 180-degree turn on that statement. He’s
now endorsed Trump for a second term in office,
the only one of Trump’s opponents for the presidential nomination to do so this cycle. And he didn’t do it by way of a social media post, or a press conference here in North Dakota, but by traveling to Iowa to stand next to the man Burgum said, just six months previously, that he wouldn’t do business with because he wouldn’t want to be judged by the company he was keeping.
“America needs a 180 degree change in direction from where Joe Biden has taken us! Donald J. Trump will make America great again!” Burgum wrote of his endorsement on Twitter.
America needs a 180 degree change in direction from where Joe Biden
has taken us! Donald J. Trump will make America great again! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/apjUIm6y0r— Doug Burgum (Text “DOUG” to 70177) (@DougBurgum) January 14, 2024
If your head is spinning from all these 180-degree turns, I don’t blame you. Mine is, too.
Though Burgum isn’t alone in.
Sen. Ted Cruz, who was Trump’s opponent for the presidency in 2016, saw the disgraced former president
suggest his wife, Heidi Cruz, is ugly
and insinuated that
Cruz’s father had something to do with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Later that cycle, Cruz
would endorse Trump for the presidency.
“If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr. Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world,” Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, said of Trump in 2016.
Sen. Mike Lee, October 2016:
“If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr. Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of… pic.twitter.com/ETkCk6Xclp
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 13, 2024
Sen. Lee endorsed Trump for a second term on January 12. “I wholeheartedly endorse Donald J. Trump in his bid for the presidency in 2024,”
he said during an interview on Fox News.
“I can just tell you that con artist is about take take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement and we have to put a stop to it,” Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, said during a February 2016 interview with CBS.
“There is no way we are going to allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement and Donald Trump is a con artist so what do you think a Trump government would look like?” he added.
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