Alex Balazs, military veteran and retired farmer, announces bid for North Dakota's U.S. House seat

Mar. 12—GRAND FORKS — Alex Balazs, a retired farmer and veteran from Cando, North Dakota, has announced his bid for the state's U.S. House seat.

Balazs is running as a Republican,

Forum Communications columnist Rob Port

reported Tuesday night. He has not yet filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, but he has made the payment to the NDGOP to seek the party's endorsement at its April convention. He likely will go to the June 11 primary regardless of the convention's outcome, Port reported.

In his conversation with Port, Balazs said his experience in the federal government puts him ahead of the other candidates.

"We do a lot for the community, but we thought the time was to get involved," Balazs told Port. "Being a veteran, working overseas, working for the government, and knowing how it really works, I think they'd be good at it. I'd be better at it. We don't have time to wait for them to get better at it."

Balazs also told Port that Donald Trump "is the one candidate we have right now who will go and do the things that need to get done." All four Republican candidates for the U.S. House seat support Trump in his bid for the Republican nomination for president.

In the announcement circulating among NDGOP district chairs, Balazs said if elected, he will be a constitutionalist, and also will be resilient against lobbyists.

"Resilience to fight against the lobbyist and the lure of the Washington, D.C., culture and workings are as familiar to him as skinning a deer in his Norwegian barn in November," the announcement said. "He is a constitutionalist and believes that we must follow the Constitution first and foremost."

Balazs joins

Julie Fedorchak,

Tom Campbell

and

Rick Becker

in the primary. The Republican Party will choose its nominee at its April convention, but all four candidates said they will go to the June primary regardless of the outcome. The winner of the June primary will presumably go against

Trygve Hammer,

the so-far only declared Democratic candidate, in November.

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