If you’re going to launch a tech company in North Dakota, you need to be willing to go against the grain and reimagine what’s possible. When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment—then cut more than a billion dollars in spending, balanced the budget, unleashed energy production, and diversified the economy. This year we achieved pension reform, helped pass term limits, and enacted the biggest tax cut in state history.

I can do the same for America. The U.S. has the hardest-working people in the world. But we need new leadership to unleash our potential.

When we empower American innovation and energy production, we strengthen the value of the dollar, stop China and Iran, and prevent wars such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We need to embrace innovation over regulation to solve the challenges of the 21st century. We need to return power to the states. Together, we can ensure unlimited opportunity for everyone willing to reach for it.

[It’s a good message, but Burgum’s hardly in a unique position to deliver it. Trump and DeSantis have delivered on that in their own terms of office at different levels, and I’d bet Nikki Haley has similar stories to tell about South Carolina. I’ll have more on this, briefly, in an upcoming post. — Ed]