In North Dakota, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is lashing it, too. “Most people in North Dakota — they don’t want to pass debt on to their kids,” she told The Associated Press this week. National Republican groups are ready to pounce on Heitkamp for her tax vote, and other instances where she lined up with her party. But Heitkamp says “so be it,” if the tax vote, which she calls a “defining” decision, makes her a one-term senator. Her tax vote is seen as a vulnerability, she says.

Source: National Post March 01, 2018 17:35 UTC