North Dakota Gov. and former presidential candidate Doug Burgum was front and center at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, fueling speculation he remains a contender on the increasingly short list of potential running mates. 

Burgum was a guest on Trump’s “Trump Force One” campaign plan. He briefly addressed the crowd before the former president took the stage. 

Bergum said working with President Trump was “like having a beautiful breeze at your back.” 

“President Trump respects state’s rights. He cut regulation. He lowered taxes,” Burgum said. “Working under the Biden regulatory regime is like having a gale-force wind in your face.” 

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Later in Trump’s speech, the former president heaped praise on Burgum saying, “he probably knows more about energy than anybody I know.” 

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Wildwood, N.J., Saturday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

He then remarked “So, get ready for something, okay? Just get ready,” but did not elaborate. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment. 

Last weekend, Trump held a closed-to-press gathering at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach and at his Mar-a-Lago estate with top donors and a list of “special guests.” 

Among those were a number of Republican politicians — including Burgum — considered to be on Trump’s shortlist for running mate. 

The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to give innocent owners of seized cars a right to an immediate hearing to reclaim their vehicles.

Instead, the justices in a 6-3 decision said the Constitution requires a “timely hearing” to consider whether the police had properly arrested the driver and seized the vehicle, but that may take weeks or months. In the interim, the innocent owner may be without their car.

The court considered appeals from two women whose cars were seized by Alabama police who had arrested the drivers on drug charges.

Halima Culley had lent her car to her college-age son. Lena Sutton lent her car to a friend. Within two weeks, the police filed a notice to the two women that their cars may be forfeited, and they did not respond.

Later, they joined a class-action lawsuit seeking damages for the state’s failure to give them a speedy hearing and to return their vehicles.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, speaking for the court, said states have adopted different rules for forfeitures, and the justices were wary of requiring a second, preliminary hearing in all forfeiture cases.

“When police seize and then seek civil forfeiture of a car that was used to commit a drug offense, the Constitution requires a timely forfeiture hearing,” he wrote in Culley vs. Marshall. “The question here is whether the Constitution also requires a separate preliminary hearing to determine whether the police may retain the car pending the forfeiture hearing. This Court’s precedents establish that the answer is no.”

Culley waited a year before filing a complaint that she was an innocent owner, and a month later, a state judge ordered her car to be returned to her. Sutton also had her car returned after she asserted she was the innocent owner.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“A police officer can seize your car if he claims it is connected to a crime committed by someone else. The police department can then keep the car for months or even years until the state ultimately seeks ownership of it through civil forfeiture. In most states, the resulting proceeds from the car’s sale go to the police department’s budget,” Sotomayor said.

The two women who sued said the Constitution “requires a prompt, post-seizure opportunity for innocent car owners to argue to a judge why they should retain their cars pending that final forfeiture determination. Today, the Court holds that the Due Process Clause never requires that minimal safeguard.”

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch concurred in the result but said the court needed to devise better rules in this area.

“In future cases, with the benefit of full briefing, I hope we might begin the task of assessing how well the profound changes in civil forfeiture practices we have witnessed in recent decades comport with the Constitution’s enduring guarantee that ‘no person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’”

The National Federation of Independent Business called the decision a disappointment for small-business owners.

“When it comes to civil asset forfeiture, small-business owners who rent, sell, or conduct cash transactions are particularly vulnerable to harm,” said Beth Milito, executive director of NFIB’s Small Business Legal Center. “Because of this decision, many small business property owners will continue to be targeted and injured by a civil asset forfeiture procedure that violates due process and punishes businesses for the actions of the public.”

Former President Trump on Friday praised his 18-year-old son, Barron, as a “smart one,” adding that the former first son likes to give his dad political advice. 

“He’s seen it, he doesn’t have to hear it,” the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee told Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT after the host asked if he had advised Barron on “how nasty” politics can be.

“He’s a smart one,” Trump continued. “He doesn’t have to hear much, but he’s a great guy. He’s a little on the tall side. I will tell you, he’s a tall one. But he’s a good-looking guy, and he’s really been a great student and he does like politics.”

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He added that Barron, who will be able to vote for the first time this year after turning 18 in March, likes to give him political advice. 

“It’s sort of funny, he’ll tell me sometimes, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do.’ So anyway, he’s a good guy. He’s a senior now in high school, and he’ll be going to college.”

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The 18-year-old had been selected as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party to the Republican National Convention, but declined it in a statement through his mother, Melania Trump’s office. 

US President Donald Trump and his son Barron wave as they board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on August 16, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images))

“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” the statement said.

The Republican National Convention is scheduled from July 15 through July 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

President Trump with first lady Melania and son, Barron, in 2019.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

His older children Eric, who is delegation chair, along with Donald Jr., his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tiffany and her husband, Michael Boulos, will serve as Florida delegates, according to The Hill.