MINOT — There's been weeks of bad news for Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller's campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
Three separate polls, including a new one out from the North Dakota News Cooperative, show her opponent, U.S. Rep.
Kelly Armstrong, with a roughly 40-point lead in the race, a margin that is presumably insurmountable. One of Miller's attacks on Armstrong, based on his representation as a criminal defense attorney of a man accused of molesting children, blew up in her face when the women abused by that man revealed themselves to be friends and supporters of Armstrong. And of the $3,585,727.
27 the Miller campaign has reported raising so far, more than 88% of it, or $3.162 million, has come from Miller's own pockets. This campaign looks to be a very expensive, excruciatingly embarrassing failure for Miller.
And, really, her boss, Gov. Doug Burgum, who has touted Miller's campaign, though Burgum has been busy lately trying to fashion himself a place on disgraced former President Donald Trump's national ticket and hasn't yet made a disclosable financial contribution to Miller's campaign. Now, adding insult to injury, the North Dakota Republican Party is piling on.
A mailer sent out last week, and bearing the disclosure that it was paid for by the NDGOP, accuses Miller of "using your hard-earned taxpayer dollars to line her own pockets." We won't dwell on the accusation in the flier, which has all the veracity of Miller's claim that Armstrong was engaged in "in.
