{"id":156593,"date":"2018-10-26T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156593"},"modified":"2018-10-27T21:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:39:29","slug":"hirtkamp-cramer-debate-friday-heated-at-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156593","title":{"rendered":"Hirtkamp Cramer debate Friday, heated at times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/heitkampHeidi.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 U.S. Senate candidates Heidi Heitkamp and Kevin Cramer turned what was supposed to be a debate with rapid-fire questions into heated arguments about health care, social security and trade.<\/p>\n<p>The hour long event Friday began with a question about civility that seemed to keep the candidates and crowd on an even-keel until they were asked about health care. Heitkamp, a Democrat, accused her Republican opponent of eliminating patient protections by voting five times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That started a lively 10-minute exchange.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71904\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cramer-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cramer-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cramer-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cramer.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Cramer named a group of state Republican leaders who favor dumping the law to give more power to the states and said he\u2019s \u201cpretty sure that Heidi Heitkamp isn\u2019t the smartest person in that whole group.\u201d Heitkamp said she trusts health care officials over Republican politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 U.S. Senate candidates Heidi Heitkamp and Kevin Cramer turned what was supposed to be a debate with rapid-fire questions into heated arguments about health care, social security and trade. The hour long event Friday began with a question about civility that seemed to keep the candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156593","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=156593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156594,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156593\/revisions\/156594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}