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North Dakotan here. Heidi Heitkamp is somewhere between a Blue Dog Democrat and a Rockafeller Republican. As a democrat, she’s pretty moderate. Which she has to be to win in an otherwise fairly conservative state. The real liberal/progressive Democrats tolerate her at best but get peaved off because she will vote on the Republican side of an issue if it affects ND agriculture/oil/coal. She knows she has to deliver on those issues and breaks step with her party.

“As a democrat, she’s pretty moderate.”

Really? With all due respect she’s the typical democrat voting left on every major bill/issue that matters. All ocare repeals - NO. Tax Bill - NO.

Her overall Trump friendly record is supposedly moderate but is boosted by votes that everyone would make such as extending government funding and hurricane relief.

Except for judicial (including Gorsuch) and non-controversial cabinet nominations which would’ve passed anyway for show she’s a typical reliable leftist so again why do Midwestern states vote GOP POTUS but so often leftist for Senate and House? Just curious.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/heidi-heitkamp/

North Dakotan here. Heidi Heitkamp is somewhere between a Blue Dog Democrat and a Rockafeller Republican. As a democrat, she’s pretty moderate. Which she has to be to win in an otherwise fairly conservative state. The real liberal/progressive Democrats tolerate her at best but get peaved off because she will vote on the Republican side of an issue if it affects ND agriculture/oil/coal. She knows she has to deliver on those issues and breaks step with her party.

She voted against the tax bill (the one even all the "RINO's" voted for), so she is going to be very vulnerable.

This election the only thing people are going to hear from the Republicans is - "It's about the economy stupid", and "Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?". Yes, Republicans in blue states are going to be in trouble, but there are almost as many Democrats in Red states that are going to have problems. My prediction is the Democrats pic up ~10 seats in the House, and Republicans pick up 4 seats in the Senate.

Can farmer/state legislator Tom Campbell beat her in the general?