FARGO, N.D. - EXCLUSIVE - Former software company CEO turned two-term North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is described as a "small town boy turned self-made, world-class business leader" and "a new leader for a changing economy" in a video released ahead of his expected Republican presidential campaign launch this week.

"Anger, yelling, infighting, that's not going to cut it anymore," Burgum says as he points to the political dysfunction in the nation's capital. 

"Let's get things done. In North Dakota, we listen with respect, and we talk things out. That's how we can get America back on track. It will work," the governor emphasizes in the video, which was shared first with Fox News on Monday.

Burgum is expected to declare his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination with a major announcement in Fargo, North Dakota planned for Wednesday, sources familiar with his plans confirmed last week.

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And Fox News has learned that Burgum will visit Iowa on Thursday and Friday (June 8-9), with stops in New Hampshire Saturday and Sunday (June 10-11). The two states for half a century have led off the GOP presidential nominating calendar.

"We need new leadership for our changing economy, innovation over regulation, instead of shutting down American oil and gas, we should unleash energy production and start selling energy to our allies instead of buying it from our enemies," Burgum proposes in his video.

And he touts that "as governor we cut red tape and took North Dakota from billions in the hole to a surplus. We balanced the budget ever year and we did it all while passing the largest tax cuts in North Dakota history."

Burgum points out that the "states created the federal government, not the other way around. Let's shrink the federal government and return power to the states."

The video, full of pictures of North Dakota's stunning landscape, spotlights Burgum's small town upbringing.

"My dad died when I was 14. Freshman year of high school. They pulled me off our basketball team bus and told me the news, "he recalls. "I grew up in a tiny town in North Dakota. Woke was what you did at 5am to start the day. A place where neighbors rally around you. My mom was our rock. Our hero."

And he highlights that "I started a shoe-shine business, worked at the grain elevator, and as a chimney sweep, paid my way through college and then earned an MBA at Stanford."

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Burgum steered his one-time small business, Great Plains Software, into a $1 billion software company. His business — and its North Dakota-based workers — were eventually acquired by Microsoft, and Burgum stayed on board as a senior vice president.

"I ignored those who said North Dakota was too small, too cold, and too remote to build a world-class software company, so I literally bet the farm to help build a tiny start-up into a billionaire dollar company with customers in 132 countries," he says in his video.

In 2016, the then first-time candidate and long shot convincingly topped a favored GOP establishment contender to secure the Republican nomination in North Dakota before going on to a landslide victory in the gubernatorial general election in the solidly red state. Burgum was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2020 to a second term as governor.

The governor, who is not known well outside of North Dakota, would be considered a dark-horse contender in a field of actual and expected 2024 GOP presidential candidates with much higher name identification, including the current clear front-runner former President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

But Burgum would enter the 2024 presidential race as one of the wealthiest members of the Republican field along with multi-millionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former President Donald Trump.

Burgum's campaign style video suggests that he'll focus his expected presidential campaign on two issues — the economy and energy. However, Burgum, who served as chair of the Western Governors Association, could also point to his recent moves as governor to sign into law a strict measure that bans abortions six weeks after gestation with limited exceptions, as well as legislation to restrict transgender rights and a bill making gender-affirming care for minors in the state a criminal offense.

Police in Maryland are accusing a mother of killing a grandmother and then trying to hide the remains with the help of her own 19-year-old daughter. 

Candace Craig, 44, and Salia Hardy are facing charges following the death of 71-year-old Margaret Craig inside a home in Landover in late May, according to the Prince George's County Police Department. 

Police say on June 2, officers responded to a home for a welfare check after a "911 caller advised he had not communicated with Margaret Craig for several days and was worried for her welfare."

"Candace Craig answered the door and allowed patrol officers access to the home to search for Margaret Craig. When the officers entered the basement, they immediately smelled the odor of decomposition," the Prince George's County Police Department said in a statement. 

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"Based on additional evidence gathered at the home, as well as multiple interviews, the preliminary investigation suggests Candace Craig murdered her mother on May 23, 2023," the statement continued. "The following day, Hardy helped her mother attempt to dispose of the remains." 

The motive for the killing is unclear and "remains under investigation," police say. 

"The detectives of the Homicide Unit will ensure a thorough investigation is conducted and that both suspects are held accountable for their cruel and criminal behavior," said Major David Blazer, the commander of the department’s major crimes division. 

Candace Craig is facing charges of first and second-degree murder, while Hardy is charged with accessory after the fact. 

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Both women are currently in custody. 

"The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will confirm the victim’s identity and attempt to identify the cause of death," police also said. 

The killing comes months after a grandmother in North Carolina was charged with murder after allegedly beating her 8-year-old granddaughter to death. 

In that case, deputies with the Nash County Sheriff's Office were called to a hospital in February after a juvenile was taken into the emergency room with severe injuries and was pronounced dead upon arrival. 

Investigators determined the girl was beaten so severely by her grandmother that she died from her injuries. She and several other siblings lived with the grandmother, who was their legal guardian. 

The grandmother, identified as 72-year-old Patricia Ann Ricks, made no statement after being transported to the sheriff's office. She was charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse with serious injury. 

Fox News’ Pilar Arias contributed to this report.