AP’s top ND news story of 2012: Heitkamp vs. Berg
December 28, 2012 in The Dickinson Press
In this Nov. 7 photo, Democratic candidate for North Dakota’s U.S. Senate seat, Heidi Heitkamp, holds up the Oct. 20 Fargo Forum in Bismarck showing the newspaper had Heitkamp’s challenger, Republican Rick Berg, leading Heitkamp in the state by 10 points. Continue Reading
In farewell remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today, Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., urged his colleagues to set aside partisan politics while addressing fiscal challenges facing the country.
Jacobs discusses Heitkamp’s victory and a victory of a different sort.
BISMARCK Come January, North Dakota U.S. Rep. Rick Berg won’t have a job or hold a public office for the first time in almost three decades. In an election where control of the U.S. Senate was thought to be at stake, the freshman Republican congressman gambled on winning an open seat and lost.
Democrat Heidi Heitkamp averted a Republican sweep in North Dakota’s top races with a narrow defeat of Republican Rep. Rick Berg in the U.S. Senate race.
BISMARCK With 26 precincts still left to report results, former North Dakota attorney general Heidi Heitkamp held a razor-thin lead over U.S. Rep. Rick Berg for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, with the winner potentially determining the balance of power in the Senate.
Republican candidates for office, from left, Gov. Jack Dalrymple; Kirsten Baesler campaign manager Annette Tait; Baesler, who is running for North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., who is running for the U.S. Senate, gather at the Republican headquarters on Saturday evening for a victory rally.
Former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain will be the featured speaker at a campaign rally for Rep. Rick Berg in Grand Forks on Thursday. 
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