ND-Sen: Kevin Cramer's women's outreach campaign continued this week when the Republican speculated to the Washington Post that Donald Trump is giving Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp preferential treatment because of her gender.
Cramer was miffed that Heitkamp got to stand near Trump at a bill signing last month, while Cramer was behind him. Cramer declared the video was "obscene" and speculated that Trump was so friendly to the Democrat because, "I do think there’s a little difference in that she’s a woman," adding, "That’s probably part of it — that she’s a, you know, a female. He doesn’t want to be that aggressive, maybe. I don’t know." Yes, he really thinks Donald Trump is less aggressive to women than to men.
Heitkamp herself has also gone up with a TV spot touting her willingness to vote with Trump in this dark red state. She tells the audience that she told them six years ago she wouldn't vote the party line "because I don't think either party has all the right answers." She then says she's voted over half the time with Trump "and that made a lot of people in Washington mad." She continues by saying "when I agree with him, I vote with him. And if his policies hurt North Dakota, he knows I'll speak up."