You might ask yourself;\u00a0 how does someone like Heidi Heitkamp – a liberal Democrat Senator, in a party that is almost extinct outside Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot, and whose state legislative caucus doesn’t have enough elected members to fill all the party’s committee assignments – keep getting elected in a state that Trump carried 68-32?<\/p>\n
It’s easy:\u00a0 Lots lots of Democrats on the coast who are desperate to hold a Senate seat that was in Democrat hands for generations, and which, once lost, will likely never be Democrat again (emphasis added):<\/p>\n
Heitkamp, currently gearing up to run for reelection in a state President Trump carried by 36 percent, was heavily reliant on sources outside North Dakota during the last fundraising quarter, during which only $21,318 of the $739,218 raised came from North Dakotans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Nearly twice as much money\u2014$39,600\u2014came from employees of financial giant Goldman Sachs alone<\/strong>, including a maximum contribution from Harvey Schwartz, the firm’s president.<\/p>\n
Also outpacing North Dakotans were New Yorkers, who supplied $191,408 to Heitkamp, and Californians, who supplied $124,452<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Overall, the $717,900 Heitkamp received from donors outside the state accounted for more than 97 percent of its fundraising<\/strong> during the quarter.<\/p>\n
Heitkamp earlier this year attacked the idea that “billionaires outside North Dakota who don’t know anything about our state” have an impact on its elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Perish the thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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