{"id":2009156,"date":"2023-08-23T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doug-burgum-injured-while-shooting-hoops-may-miss-gop-debate-he-paid-millions-to-qualify-for\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:11:22","slug":"doug-burgum-injured-while-shooting-hoops-may-miss-gop-debate-he-paid-millions-to-qualify-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doug-burgum-injured-while-shooting-hoops-may-miss-gop-debate-he-paid-millions-to-qualify-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Burgum injured playing basketball, may miss GOP debate he spent millions to qualify for."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoug-burgum-injured-while-shooting-hoops-may-miss-gop-debate-he-paid-millions-to-qualify-for%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009156&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Republican Governor Doug\u2063 Burgum&#8217;s Debate Dilemma<\/h2>\n<p>Republican presidential candidate and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum \u2062may miss the GOP presidential debate on\u200c Wednesday night after suffering an \u2063injury during a game of \u200bpick-up\u2063 basketball on \u2064Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum went to \u2064an\u200d emergency room \u200dTuesday \u200cnight for\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-doug-burgum-may-not-be-able-to-debate-after-suffering-leg-injury\/\" title=\"Gov. Doug Burgum's leg injury may prevent him from participating in debates.\">leg\u200d injury<\/a> and was discharged by Wednesday morning. His campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/north-dakota-gov-doug-burgum-suffers-injury-republican-presidential-debate\">told<\/a> Fox News \u2064that it remains &#8220;unclear if he will be able to stand \u200cat the debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doug-burgum-injured-while-shooting-hoops-may-miss-gop-debate-he-paid-millions-to-qualify-for\/\" title=\"Doug Burgum injured playing basketball, may miss GOP debate he spent millions to qualify for.\">unlucky break<\/a> for the governor comes after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-pence-to-deliver-pro-life-address-as-supremes-mull-ms-case-tragedy-of-roe-is-unprecedented-in-the-history-of-mankind\/\" title=\"Exclusive-- Pence to Deliver Pro-Life Address as Supremes Mull MS Case: \u2018Tragedy\u2019 of Roe Is \u2018Unprecedented in the History of Mankind\u2019\">spent  million<\/a> of his personal\u200d money \u200bto \u2063boost his campaign. The wealthy former Microsoft executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/north-dakota-gov-doug-burgum-suffers-injury-republican-presidential-debate\">spent<\/a> more than $700,000 on a scheme to qualify\u200d for the debate\u2014he gave anyone who donated at least \u2062$1 to his campaign a $20 gift card in return. Candidates \u200bneed 40,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-announce-104-million-off-year-record-breaking-fundraising-haul-in-2021\/\" title=\"Senate Republicans Announce 4 Million Off-Year Record-Breaking Fundraising Haul in 2021\">000 unique donors<\/a> to their campaign to make it on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates participating in the Milwaukee debate are expected to \u2063participate in a walk-through of the venue. It is unclear whether Burgum will participate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum might skip the GOP debate on Wednesday due to a leg injury sustained while playing basketball. He visited the emergency room Tuesday night and was released Wednesday morning, according to his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2009157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}