tailfins
09-07-2017, 07:56 PM
Trump invited Sen. Heitkamp to travel with him to Bismarck on Air Force One and called her a "good woman" after summoning her onto the event stage outside an oil refinery.
For a Democrat fighting to keep her seat next year in a state Trump won by 36 points, the senator's day could not have gone much better. Trump's tax push has yet to be written as legislation, and a vote still remains a hypothetical. Heitkamp's appearance with the president, then, cost her little in exchange for what amounted to an endorsement of her willingness to work across the aisle.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/07/in_north_dakota_trump_gives_nod_to_democrat_heitka mp.html
For a Democrat fighting to keep her seat next year in a state Trump won by 36 points, the senator's day could not have gone much better. Trump's tax push has yet to be written as legislation, and a vote still remains a hypothetical. Heitkamp's appearance with the president, then, cost her little in exchange for what amounted to an endorsement of her willingness to work across the aisle.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/07/in_north_dakota_trump_gives_nod_to_democrat_heitka mp.html