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North Dakota Democrat Heitkamp scrambles to catch Cramer
Associated Press ^ | Oct. 14, 2018 12:16 PM EDT | Thomas Beaumont and Dave Kolpack

Posted on 10/14/2018 7:41:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Heidi Heitkamp squeezed dozens of hands and posed for pictures with college students at North Dakota State University recently, bubbling with characteristic exuberance that belied the Democratic senator’s uncertain future.

“I want everybody to just do something for me,” Heitkamp said, her voice hoarse. “Everybody stand up! I want you to reach as high as you can. Now, I want you to reach about six inches higher. That’s what we’ve got to do to win! We’ve got to go higher.”

An already tenuous bid for a second term has taken on new urgency for Heitkamp since she voted against Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. Heitkamp is scrambling to find her footing amid fears that the race against Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer is slipping away, and with it Democrats’ slim hopes of a Senate majority.

“Are we facing some headwinds? Yep,” Heitkamp said in an Associated Press interview. “But I’ve faced headwinds before, and won.”

Heitkamp has been betting for months that her image as an independent collaborator — someone who could go along with President Donald Trump, but challenge him when needed — could carry her to another term in GOP-heavy North Dakota.

Trailing in polls, including her own campaign’s, with three weeks until Election Day, Heitkamp plans to essentially camp out in North Dakota, especially its more politically independent eastern side. …

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: cramer; heitkamp; nobluewave; redwave

1 posted on 10/14/2018 7:41:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
"“I want everybody to just do something for me,” Heitkamp said.."

Isn't heitkamp a public servant? Or does she, like all pathetic progressive's, believe the public is their servant?

2 posted on 10/14/2018 7:48:16 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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To: Olog-hai

Chuckie’s sock puppet.


3 posted on 10/14/2018 7:48:32 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (GOP- 65 House and 12 Senate seat pickups in November)
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To: Olog-hai

She needs to create a fake scandal.


4 posted on 10/14/2018 7:51:59 PM PDT by mindburglar (I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
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To: Olog-hai

Heinycramp will get blown out.


5 posted on 10/14/2018 7:54:58 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Olog-hai

6 posted on 10/14/2018 7:55:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO BREWERS! KICK THE MLB DEEP STATE @SS!)
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To: Olog-hai

“bubbling with characteristic exuberance”

Oh, GAG.


7 posted on 10/14/2018 8:09:01 PM PDT by Conserv (Conserv)
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To: chief lee runamok

Total loser
In a conservative state


8 posted on 10/14/2018 8:52:13 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Olog-hai

She’s toast.


9 posted on 10/14/2018 9:25:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Olog-hai

Send HeilKampf back home.


10 posted on 10/14/2018 10:52:50 PM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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To: Olog-hai

Heitkamp plans to essentially camp out in North Dakota,

VS Washington DC where she would “prefer” to spend her time.


11 posted on 10/14/2018 11:02:58 PM PDT by heshtesh (Brtan)
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To: Olog-hai

My impression is that Heitkamp is the least insane of all nationally prominent democrats (which is exactly like saying the least unpleasant among a list of deadly diseases). Am I mistaken on that? Who is the closest to Zell Miller or William Proxmire today? Who is the best of the worst?


12 posted on 10/15/2018 12:28:15 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Olog-hai
Hide camp has been hiding under the umbrella of pretending to be 'conservative/moderate' while voting for all things left.

Fat, dumpy, smiling bitch, kinda reminds you of your grandma, and is cooking dinner, who can hate that?

13 posted on 10/15/2018 4:08:21 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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College students - ha! She’s down to going after the ignorant and impressionable.


14 posted on 10/15/2018 4:23:07 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Olog-hai
KAVENAUGH!
15 posted on 10/15/2018 4:29:49 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (No Republican Senator should vote for any Democrat Presidents Supreme Court nominee ever again.)
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