Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness welcomes Trygve Hammer, Candidate for U.S. House in North Dakota, to discuss why he is running and what he plans to do with the job.

Trygve Hammer is a retired Marine Corps officer and a veteran of the Global War on Terror. He also taught 7-12 grade science in a rural school, worked on oil rigs in the Bakken, as a freight rail conductor, and as a counselor for Job Corps in Minot.

On Saturday, each of North Dakota’s two largest cities held district conventions in preparation for the state convention. Trygve Hammer, who ran for Congress in 2024, is seeking the seat once again. Hammer spoke at the Bismarck-Mandan district convention, telling a packed auditorium, “We have no voice in Congress.” Hammer said. “We deserve better, our military families deserve better.”

Two Democrats are competing for their party’s endorsement in North Dakota’s U.S. House race, a change from recent cycles where the nominee was often effectively decided early.

Character matters, Trygve Hammer of Minot told a Souris Valley Dem-NPL gathering Monday, Jan. 19, in a celebration of the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. in Minot.