Heidi Heitkamp raises eye-popping $12.5 million after Kavanaugh 'no' vote

[George II]

Source: CNN

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN

Updated 12:14 AM ET, Fri October 26, 2018

(CNN)Donors sent a wave of fresh money this month to North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, one of the Senate's most endangered Democratic incumbents, in the days after she voted to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court.

Heitkamp collected an eye-popping $12.5 million during the first 17 days of October, more than three times the $3.8 million she raised during the entire July-to-September fundraising quarter. Donors who give in small amounts fueled about 60% of her individual contributions.

The cash tsunami underscores how the contentious process surrounding Kavanaugh's confirmation has stirred activists. Republicans say they too have seen a donor outpouring in response to the drama of the Kavanaugh hearing and the razor-thin vote to send him to the nation's high court.

The GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Kavanaugh this month following a high-profile hearing and FBI investigation into allegations of sexual assault lodged against him. Kavanaugh has denied any wrongdoing.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/heitkamp-kavanaugh-fundraising/index.html

[MontanaMama]

1. I donated to Heitkamp

with an email that I was donating to her campaign because of her NO vote on the drunk rapist.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Like everything else

there would need to be a massive GOTV there to save her. There are literally newly expanded towns in that state thanks to the oil boom, but in a state as vast and rural as ND, but I expect that it can be a nightmare trying to get to pockets of people outside of the bigger cities of Fargo, Bismarck, and Minot.