The Associated Press “reports”:

North Dakota first lady Mikey Hoeven considers her husband a handsome man. But after 27 years of marriage, there’s still one part of the governor she hasn’t seen: his upper lip.
A campaign for U.S. Senate isn’t likely to change that, she said.
“I’m pretty sure he has no intention of shaving his mustache,” she said the day after Gov. John Hoeven announced his candidacy. “He’s pretty attached to it and obviously the mustache is very attached to him.” . . .
“It’s all become a matter of debate within a campaign, because you don’t see a lot of people in politics with facial hair,” said Angela McMillen, executive director of the American Association of Political Consultants.
A number of studies over the years have shown that voters perceive candidates with facial hair as less trustworthy than their clean-shaven counterparts, said McMillen and Jeffrey Adler, a political consultant in Long Beach, Calif., for more than 25 years.
Voters “believe that these types of candidates are hiding something, because they’re hiding behind their facial hair,” Adler said.

I suspect the popular governor will do just fine without the AP’s makeover advice.