Gov. Doug Burgum, a potential Trump running mate, says “the election is not gonna turn on this trial”

Washington – Governor of North Dakota. Doug Burgumconsidered one of the candidates for Donald Trump’s running mate, said on Sunday that the November election will not be decided by condemnation of the former president at the hush money trial in New York.

“While this is interesting and captivating right now for many people, the election will not depend on this trial,” Burgum said on “Face the Nation” Sunday.

A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty last week of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 presidential election. But Republicans ridiculed the verdict, keeping your supposed candidate for president and claiming that the jury was biased, even though the jury was made up of seven men and five women, all approved by the defense and prosecution.

Burgum repeated skepticism of the verdict, while also asserting that Americans have not been paying much attention to the trial. He argued that American workers do not have time to follow the details of the trial and suggested it will not have a major impact on the electorate in November.

“As this moment passes, when we have elections this fall, are people going to make a decision about are they better off today than they were four years ago?” Burgum said, noting that Americans have already had a chance to live their lives under the Trump administration. “Americans will return to the issues that affect them because the outcome of the trial doesn’t affect them, inflation affects them.”

According to a CBS News Poll conducted after the verdict, just over a third of Americans said they had been following news about Trump’s trial and conviction “very closely.” The poll also found that just over half of Americans think the jury reached the correct verdict and that the trial was fair, which is largely unchanged from the portion of the country that found Trump guilty before the verdict. And an overwhelming majority of Republicans said they thought Trump was treated unfairly, a sentiment he and his surrogates have touted for months.

Burgum was among a group of Republican officials who showed up at the Manhattan courthouse in the days leading up to the verdict to support the former president. Although the governor of North Dakota has launched a long-shot bid for the White House, he bowed of the race in December and after endorsed Trump. Since then, he has become a staunch supporter of the former president and is considered one of Trump’s running mates.

When asked about communicating from The Washington Post that Trump met with oil executives and told them that if they raised $1 billion to help him return to the White House, he would reduce regulation and begin auctioning off drilling leases, Burgum supported the former president.

“I was at that meeting. That didn’t happen,” said Bugum. “He didn’t ask for a billion dollars in donations and there was no return.”

The Washington Post also reported that Trump suggested to oil executives that he would ease scrutiny of the industry and mergers and acquisitions if he won, which Burgum also denied. But when asked what happened at the meeting, Burgum said Trump “went around the room for two hours, asking each of the people to tell me what their challenges are? he was there all night learning about the challenges we faced.”

But Burgum insisted that Trump is not “targeting” the oil industry to fund his re-election bid, although he added that current environmental restrictions are “harming this country.”