Doug Burgum answers voters’ questions in New Hampshire town hall

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will meet with voters on the morning of Friday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. EST, as part of a series of town hall forums in Exeter, New Hampshire, hosted by the USA TODAY Network.
Elected governor in 2016 with little political experience, Burgum, 67, won his second term in a 40-point landslide in 2020.

On the campaign trail, Burgum talks about his small town roots and values and the challenges his family faced when his father died when Burgum was a freshman in high school. Burgum mortgaged the family farm to start a software company he later sold to Microsoft in 2001 for $1.1 billion.