{"id":156189,"date":"2018-10-23T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156189"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:28:09","slug":"hagel-stumps-in-nd-for-heitkamp-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156189","title":{"rendered":"Hagel stumps in ND for Heitkamp, Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HagelChuck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-156198 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HagelChuck-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HagelChuck-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HagelChuck-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HagelChuck.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Former Republican senator and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is telling North Dakota veterans to support Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.Hagel is a former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran. He&#8217;s making campaign stops across North Dakota this week to help Heitkamp gain support from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/727bf74930d84c99bdd9deea5ac6fd18\">veterans, who may be pivotal<\/a> on Election Day in her close race against Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer.The race is seen as critical for control of the closely divided Senate.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Hagel told a crowd of about 100 veterans and others in Bismarck that Heitkamp will work &#8220;across the aisle&#8221; on their behalf in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel told North Dakota military veterans Tuesday that Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is a bipartisan, common sense lawmaker who will continue to look out for their interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is a straight-shooter who does not look through a political lens,&#8221; said Hagel, a former two-term senator from Nebraska and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran. &#8220;She sure as hell deserves your consideration for a second term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hagel says he&#8217;ll also campaign for Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel sometimes broke ranks with Republicans while a senator, including on the Iraq war. He served as Pentagon chief during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Former Republican senator and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is telling North Dakota veterans to support Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.Hagel is a former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran. He&#8217;s making campaign stops across North Dakota this week to help Heitkamp gain support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156210,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156189\/revisions\/156210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}