What Trump Sees in Doug Bur­gum

Don­ald Trump knows how to run a tal­ent show.
He’s built a career out of them — in addi­tion to careers as real estate mogul and pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States.
What he learned from Miss Uni­verse beau­ty pageants and the break­out suc­cess of “The Appren­tice” he’s now apply­ing to the try­outs for vice pres­i­dent.
No one watch­es if com­pe­ti­tion isn’t tense:
Con­tes­tants all need a moment to shine, even if their chances are dim.
Dark hors­es make a good sto­ry­line — under­dogs an even bet­ter one.
So now the spot­light turns to a con­tender nobody would have guessed would be under seri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion: the gov­er­nor of North Dako­ta.

Who?
Is that the one who shot the dog?
No, that’s Kristi Noem, gov­er­nor of the oth­er Dako­ta.
And her hopes are as dead as that poor pooch.
The gov­er­nor on the …