{"id":155693,"date":"2018-10-16T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155693"},"modified":"2018-10-16T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:54:49","slug":"heitkamp-apologizes-for-misidentifying-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155693","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp apologizes for misidentifying victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-121681\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp is apologizing for misidentifying victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and rape who were listed in a recent newspaper ad aimed at her opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp said in a statement Tuesday that she had recently learned that several of the women named in the ad either hadn&#8217;t authorized it or are not survivors of abuse. She says she deeply regrets the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The ad that ran Sunday in several North Dakota newspapers was an open letter to Kevin Cramer, her Republican opponent, criticizing comments he made on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/cfde0a8884854030a2d9fe30154a13aa\">Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation to the Supreme Court<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Cramer supported Kavanaugh, while Heitkamp voted against his nomination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/c6d850700836490bb65121dcfa01c200\">The Heitkamp-Cramer matchup<\/a> is seen as critical for control of the closely divided Senate.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp is apologizing for misidentifying victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and rape who were listed in a recent newspaper ad aimed at her opponent. Heitkamp said in a statement Tuesday that she had recently learned that several of the women named in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155694,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155693\/revisions\/155694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}