{"id":6918,"date":"2012-11-07T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2012-11-08T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:54:37","slug":"heitkamp-wins-berg-concedes-u-s-sen-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6918","title":{"rendered":"Heitkamp Wins, Berg Concedes US Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Berg2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6942\" title=\"Berg2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Berg2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Berg2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Berg2-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Berg2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic candidate Heidi Heitkamp has won the U.S. Senate race in North Dakota, defeating Republican Rep. Rick Berg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Heitkamp won the race by fewer than 3,000 votes, and Berg could have asked for a recount.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He conceded the race Wednesday with a qualifier: He was stepping aside barring\u00a0 any unforeseen circumstances with the state canvasing board that certifies the race results.\u00a0 (\u00a0Berg\u00a0photo by Matt Sheppard &#8211; Nov 4, 2012 at Buffalo Mall, Jamestown.\u00a0 Heitkamp photo by Matt Sheppard during taping for September City Matters at CSi studio.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That canvasing process is to begin Friday. It will account for late-arriving absentee ballots that were postmarked in time to be counted in the election.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Berg had been expected to win the race, and Republicans had counted on his victory in their failed attempt to take control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0426 of 426 precincts &#8211; 100 percent<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heidi Heitkamp, Dem 160,752 &#8211; 50 percent<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rick Berg, GOP 157,758 &#8211; 50 percent<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Below is a statement from Rick Berg:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTracy, Jack and I thank all of our hard working and dedicated grassroots supporters throughout North Dakota who committed their time, effort, and heart into this campaign. We are truly blessed for the opportunity to work alongside our fellow North Dakotans over these past several months, and are humbled by the trust they invested in our campaign and our vision for a better future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith the ballots left outstanding, we see no reason to believe that the result of this election will change over the course of the official certification process. With that, I concede this election and congratulate Heidi Heitkamp, her family, staff and supporters on a hard-fought campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur problems aren\u2019t solved by conducting an election. Our challenges don\u2019t go away at the ballot box. Our country remains in need of real solutions to the problems we face, and I am hopeful and optimistic that the leaders we elected last night here in North Dakota and throughout our country will rise to meet them. I encourage those on both sides of the political debate to support our elected officials as they make the necessary tough decisions to put our country back on track and restore the promise of the American dream.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic candidate Heidi Heitkamp has won the U.S. Senate race in North Dakota, defeating Republican Rep. Rick Berg. \u00a0Heitkamp won the race by fewer than 3,000 votes, and Berg could have asked for a recount.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He conceded the race Wednesday with a qualifier: He was stepping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state","tag-berg","tag-heitkamp","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","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=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6921,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}