1. Heitkamp has experience on environmental issues, energy production and agriculture. Her former jobs include working for the Environmental Protection Agency and a coal and synthetic fuels plan
2. A Heitkamp appointment would give Trump's cabinet the veneer of bipartisanship, and all but certainly hand Republicans control of another Senate seat, giving them a 53-47 edge in the upper chamber.
3."If Heitkamp leaves, that makes incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) job of holding together his caucus to fight Republicans while minimizing election losses in two years that much harder"
Bannon and Team Trump at it's best..the governor can take up to May 2017 to schedule an election for the seat. Schumer will have one less vote on any appointments, including for Supreme Court.
I think we need some serious details here.... #2 & #3 I can go along with.
And what's in it for her?
How is it a win to put a Democrat back in charge of the EPA?
She’s going to lose the seat anyway. No need to pay for it with a cabinet post.