Kevin Cramer Projected to Defeat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota

Cramer's win effectively clinches Senate for GOP

Rep. Kevin Cramer is projected to defeat incumbent Democratic North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for the state’s Senate seat.

The Associated Press, CNN, and others projected that Cramer, who was touted heavily by President Donald Trump, would win.

“Thank you North Dakota. Representing you in the United States Senate will be the honor of a lifetime,” Cramer tweeted.

When the networks called the race for him, Cramer was beating Heitkamp 58 percent to 42 percent.

His victory essentially clinched the Senate for Republicans, Politico noted.

North Dakota voted heavily in favor of President Trump. Ahead of the election, Heitkamp said she would try to work with the president.

But several weeks ago, a reporter from Project Veritas Action recorded a Heitkamp staffer saying that Heitkamp would lean further to the left if she were re-elected.

“It’s election year for her. She’s being careful about [expletive] people off and, it’s funny, she said basically, like, after the election, if and when she gets re-elected, she’s going to be super liberal,” Jesse Overton, digital director for Heitkamp, said while laughing.

“If there’s a blue wave in November, I am sure that her voting record will shift a lot and will shift away from the President’s campaign,” her staff assistant, Prescott Robinson also said in the video.

According to CNBC, Cramer has been a strong proponent with a trade war with China.