she did but she takes ownership of it. how does that answer playing with the audience you saw deliver it to? i think it played well with that audience, lawrence. i think the way in she owned it, she took a bad situation. she has no explanation for it, they have no excuse. they let someone go from the campaign today. but in that room from heitkamp s supporters i think she owned the mistake and apologize for it. i think as a political matter it s left her campaign which you suggested in your intro in a difficult place. she was starting to see someday light with kevin kramer pulling away even before the kavanaugh vote. the margin has widened during the kavanaugh confirmation controversy. we haven t seen polling since the vote itself. but because of the polling in the state on kavanaugh she knew that taking that vote was going
requiring voter i.d.s that include specific residential address, they know it s very common for residents of reservations to simply use post-office box address in all of their identification. the suppression of the tribal vote and senator heitkamp s decision to vote against the confirmation of brett kavanaugh meant that her campaign was going to be in an up hill climb in which they could not afford any mistakesch and then the heitkamp campaign made a serious mistake. the challenger criticized the me too movement about being for victimization. and as the new york times reports, mr. kramer said they cannot understand this movement towards victimizization. they are pioneers of the prairie. these are tough people whose parents were tough and great-grandparents were tough. saying we are all survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or rape, we are all north dakotans, we are all
so, john, the heitkamp campaign is not pulling away from that issue. no, and i think lawrence it goes back to the thing we talked about. i said i don t know i ve seen many tougher votes than the votes she took. and she took it she was the attorney general of the state for two terms. she s prosecuted a lot of sexual assault cases. her mother was a victim of sexual assault and harassment. this was something that came out in the wake of that kramer comment about women playing victim, and she revealed her mother was a victim. so she made her choice on this vote, and i think she recognizes that s the hand she s playing. and if she s going to play that hand and die on that hill, not going to go down without fighting this issue on the way out. john heilemann, thank you for joining us from north dakota tonight. appreciate it. coming up, donald trump won pennsylvania by one percentage point. but the trump republican senate candidate is now down by 15 points.
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sort of best swing state indicator in the midwest for decades. has president trump lost those farmers yet, or no? he hasn t lost a lot of them, but he will lose some when it hits their pocket books. when your friends and neighbors are losing their farm because of tariffs, it s going to be hard to go into the voting booth and cast a vote for him, cast a vote for republicans in the midterm. one of the things that people forget is that iowa had 31 or 33 pivot counties. those are counties that ballotopedia has said voted twice for obama, that s a third of our counties almost, we have 99, and those they went for trump. two times voting for obama and then going for trump. it could flip back real quick. john harwood, look, the one family of network that is focusing on this more than anybody is cnbc. the disconnect in washington between particularly the ag