Heidi Heitkamp: “85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue.”

Oh, I think it`s absolutely self-preservation. They see the handwriting on the wall that in the annals of history, this is not going to look well.

You have all the data in the world, but if you don't have somebody ready to engage with farmers and ranchers on the ground...

If we really believe that we have an emerging crisis in climate, why shouldn't we basically be early adopters and get out there and get it done?

The races that I`m watching right now in North Dakota are races for the school board. We`ve had a couple of attempts at recall elections, people wanting to ban books, people wanting to bring a whole different dynamic to schools, really…