North Dakota Republican Governor Doug Burgum–who, you may not have realized (or cared), threw his hat into the 2024 GOP presidential ring in May–said he would not back a national abortion ban if he were elected, Forbes reports.
Now alienating the anti-choice wing of the base–which is basically all of it–comes on top of ordering masking in the state as a public health precaution and failing to rake the floors of North Dakota, all things that make it likely he won’t maintain 0.3% of the vote he carries in polling now.