ND Governor Doug Burgum in the Spin Room in Milwaukee

There’s the debate. And then there’s the candidates’ “spin” as to how it went. From that fact of political life arose the “spin room,” an area in the debate venue where candidates can talk to the media and put their “spin” on the evening’s proceedings.

North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, who only barely qualified to be on the stage under the Republican National Committee’s rules, nevertheless served as a good example of what happens in the spin room.