{"id":81464,"date":"2015-09-09T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81464"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:15:50","slug":"heitkamp-wont-run-for-nd-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=81464","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp won&#8217;t run for ND governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33868\" alt=\"heitkamp_Legacy\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heitkamp_Legacy.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she won&#8217;t run for North Dakota governor, a setback for Democrats&#8217; hopes of claiming the state&#8217;s top office.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp said Wednesday she wouldn&#8217;t seek the seat being vacated by Republican Jack Dalrymple, who isn&#8217;t seeking re-election. Heitkamp, in a call-in to her brother Joel&#8217;s radio show on KFGO-AM, said it wasn&#8217;t the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Heitkamp&#8217;s decision leaves her party scrambling for a top candidate. The 59-year-old is a rare Democrat who has been successful in recent years in conservative North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>But Heitkamp&#8217;s decision is good news for national Democrats. If she had left the Senate to run, it could have complicated Democrats&#8217; chances of retaking the U.S. Senate in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she won&#8217;t run for North Dakota governor, a setback for Democrats&#8217; hopes of claiming the state&#8217;s top office. Heitkamp said Wednesday she wouldn&#8217;t seek the seat being vacated by Republican Jack Dalrymple, who isn&#8217;t seeking re-election. Heitkamp, in a call-in to [&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-81464","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\/81464","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=81464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81469,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81464\/revisions\/81469"}],"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=81464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}