Long-shot Republican presidential hopeful Doug Burgum is set to announce his candidacy next week

Doug Burgum is the divorced billionaire governor of a sprawling state whose whole population numbers just north of Seattle’s.

Frida Ghitis: The proliferation of long-shot Republican presidential hopefuls has only one upside: Donald Trump will get to do his thing.

Ghitis says he has no chance of winning. But he has more wrong than at least half a dozen current players of equal or higher stature who could just as easily throw their hats in the ring but have wisely opted not to run.

One of the great benefits of the 2016 primary was the path of destruction Donald Trump tore through the old GOP.

One by one, hacks and hopefuls such as Jeb Bush and John Kasich slinked off into obscurity, hardly to be heard from again.

A similar separation of sheep from goats could be well worth the waste and chaos of another crowded primary.