Will you endorse him?
You know him better than I do.
Conservative?
Somewhat. Not hard Right, but not down to the level of a moderate. Has a 60% approval rating, and ran in spite of the GOPe in the state, using his own money. Closer to De Santis than Trump, in his track record. For insight, read his reply while vetoing portions of the Office of Management and Budget Appropriations Bill.
https://www.governor.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/Senate%20Bill%202015%20veto%20message.pdf There is some evidence of fiscal responsibility, there, but as Governor, he has the ability to veto sections of a Bill here, and not the whole thing. That would be denied him by the current Federal setup.
On the down side, he vetoed bills which would have forbid transgender participation in sports other than under the auspices of the birth sex of the competitor (citing that this is not a problem in the state), and which would have forbid the use of chosen pronouns instead of those which reflected the sex of a child in schools.
He also vetoed a bill which would have prohibited ranked choice voting in the State, and a school voucher bill.
Now, those are four issues I would have liked to seen codified, but were vetoed.
He's a mixed bag, imho.