North Dakota Senate2018

U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is in an unenviable position; she is a Democrat sitting in a state that President Donald Trump carried by 36 points and is a member of a Senate minority doing everything in its power to oppose Trump and Senate Republicans. That’s the bad news. The good news is that she is well known statewide and votes her state’s priorities as much as she can. She won this seat in 2012 by less than 3,000 votes against then At-Large U.S. Rep. Rick Berg, who was a less than stellar candidate. While Heitkamp was eking out a win, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried the state by 19 points. It took more than a year, but Republicans got their top recruit this cycle when At-Large U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer reversed his decision to stay in the House and announced he would run. Cramer is as well known as Heitkamp, creating a level playing field. This may turn out to be one of the closest Senate races in the country. The contest is in the Toss Up column.

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