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With ‘good woman,’ did Donald Trump just help Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp get reelected
Washington Post ^ | September 6, 2017

Posted on 09/09/2017 3:03:19 AM PDT by SMGFan

This is not a story you'd expect to read in 2017, but it happened: President Trump went to North Dakota on Wednesday and praised its Democratic senator, who is up for reelection next year, as a “good woman."

"Come on up, senator," Trump told a crowd at an oil refinery in Mandan, as he had a called up some of the state's elected officials, all of them Republican, save Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. "These are great people. They work hard. They’re for you 100 percent."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; heitkamp; nd2018
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To: SMGFan

He approves of the swamp more and more every day. He didnt drain it and now it is up to his ears.


41 posted on 09/09/2017 5:36:58 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: RepRivFarm

“President Donald J. Trump is a promise-breaker in the truest sense of the word, “

Except for all of the stuff he didn’t...that you clowns conveniently ignore.

He will never nominate a conservative to SCOTUS!

He will never leave the Paris accords!

He will never...on and fricking on!

That is why he has the support he has, while you have no idea what to offer that is “better”.


42 posted on 09/09/2017 5:39:01 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Call your congressman and tell them to cooperate then.

Or is that too hard?


43 posted on 09/09/2017 5:40:57 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SMGFan

Has any Repub Senators attending any of his rallies?


44 posted on 09/09/2017 5:41:11 AM PDT by bray
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To: Fai Mao
Maaybe she has signaled that she wants to switch parties?

In DC, all "switching parties" really is is shifting from the port to starboard bench on the same sinking boat.

Both parties are essentially the same these days: conniving, self-serving, arrogant, elitist, globalist, disdainful of the rule of law and the limits set upon them by the Constitution, and offended that the people who elected them actually expect them to do what the people elected them to do.

45 posted on 09/09/2017 5:41:29 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Fai Mao

My vote is this, she becomes Republican. Trump says Republican and serves eitght years, unless he signs amnesty.


46 posted on 09/09/2017 5:46:02 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: SMGFan

I’ve thought - and have said so here a few times - that Trump will pivot and run as a democrat in 2020.

Such a thing might even bring the democrat mainstream back to their senses.


47 posted on 09/09/2017 5:47:19 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Fightin Whitey

You should change your Freeper handle ... to Fightious Whitious. LOL.


48 posted on 09/09/2017 5:48:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s my nick over on the Latin FR!


49 posted on 09/09/2017 5:52:45 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: sargon

well said


50 posted on 09/09/2017 5:58:06 AM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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To: Blackirish

Fanboys? Really? You could at least try to hide your contempt for Trump supporters. There are many, in case you didn’t know.


51 posted on 09/09/2017 6:08:11 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: Candor7

A very good way of expressing what’s going on. “Master of the Dog and Pony show of politics.”
People who don’t look at the nuances miss this completely. Trump lives in a messy world filled with real people who are complex not party labels. If he can work with this Senator he will build a bridge. He’s building as many bridges as he can on both sides of the aisle jockeying into position to get legislature passed for the American people. It’s a process not an on off button.

The labels, (Democrat, Republican), are a poor reflection of ideology at this point anyway. Who could think of Paul Ryan as a Republican in the strict definition?
In Trump’s world it comes down to individual people not labels just like in mine.


52 posted on 09/09/2017 6:09:26 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: Blackirish

Really? You know this?

He kept the GOPe from delaying the debt BS to past the election. He’s forcing the GOPe to be accountable. The GOPe is not working.

His agreement with the Dims is three months and what did they get them, exactly?


53 posted on 09/09/2017 6:10:28 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: VanDeKoik

+1000; Thank you.

These threads get so tiresome wading through the never Trumper, GOPe loving FReepers.


54 posted on 09/09/2017 6:13:38 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: onedoug

That must be why Gorsuch is on the bench and the Paris accords are a distant memory and regulations are decreasing bigly and illegal border crossings are way down.

Whatever.


55 posted on 09/09/2017 6:16:22 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: Blackirish

Actually it is working out great and oh btw it’s 3D chess while Democrats and Rino’s are playing checkers.


56 posted on 09/09/2017 6:18:08 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Vaquero; Blackirish; Theodore R.

The leader of a conservative party with balls would be recruiting a challenger to Heitkamp.

I hope there is some strategy here and the President isn’t getting played by this marxist witch who saved Obamacare. She’s a wily little skunk, she has to be to get elected in ND.


57 posted on 09/09/2017 6:33:29 AM PDT by Impy (Anyone who votes to raise taxes deserves to get rabies.)
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To: Impy

Everything is strategic with Trump. I don’t second guess him much. He usually puts things right in the big picture.


58 posted on 09/09/2017 6:41:21 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: SMGFan

I think Trump is finally being Trump.

For two years he told us he was a man of action. He told us he is a deal maker.

This is what he is doing. I think he did the calculation of what they would end up with after 20 days of getting beat up by the opposition. It likely came out to be about the same deal that he got. And he got Harvey relief as well.

Think about what’s coming in the next few months: Two huge hurricanes, North Korea, and a challenging economy. Look for stories about the collapse of the petro dollar—and that could lead to the dumping of the dollar very quickly.

This is not the time for twiddling his thumbs. This is a precarious time. It is a time to lead—and he is finally doing it.


59 posted on 09/09/2017 6:49:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Vermont Lt

To your point:

“China’s New Gold-Backed Oil Futures Contract Cuts Out U.S. Dollar”

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4104448-chinas-new-gold-backed-oil-futures-contract-cuts-u-s-dollar


60 posted on 09/09/2017 6:55:30 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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