BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong won election as North Dakota’s next governor on Tuesday, continuing the GOP's three-decade grip on the highest job in the conservative state. The state’s lone U.S.
BISMARCK, N.D. — Republican U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong won election as North Dakota’s next governor on Tuesday, continuing the GOP's three-decade grip on the highest job in the conservative state.
Armstrong will be sworn in on Dec. 15, weeks before the biennial Legislature convenes with an expected Republican supermajority in Bismarck. He will succeed outgoing GOP Gov. Doug Burgum, who did not seek a third term. Burgum was a finalist to be former President Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate.
A Democrat last won a statewide election in North Dakota in 2012 when Heidi Heitkamp scored a U.S. Senate victory. In Congress, Armstrong backed former President Donald Trump against two impeachment forays, voted for federal protections for same-sex and interracial married couples, and was one of former House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's proposed members to serve on a panel intended to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. McCarthy later declined to appoint the panel.Armstrong has previously said he plans to resign his House seat a few weeks early to assume office as governor in December.
Piepkorn, 75, has served in the state Senate since 2016, in a dwindling Democratic caucus that holds just four of the chamber's 47 seats. He represents a district in Fargo, the state's largest city. Piepkorn is the president of a company that produces TV, film and radio projects, as well as live events. His Senate term expires this year.Burgum a two-term governor, announced he would not seek a third term. over a month after he ended his bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
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