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●ND-Sen: Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer continues to find new ways to make offensive comments about women in his race against Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, with his latest incident disparaging the #MeToo movement:
"That you're just supposed to believe somebody because they said it happened," Mr. Cramer said, alluding to Christine Blasey Ford—who has accused Justice Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers—and, more broadly, women who have come forward to claim that they were sexually abused or assaulted.
Invoking his wife, daughters, mother and mother-in-law, Mr. Cramer said, "They cannot understand this movement toward victimization. They are pioneers of the prairie. These are tough people whose grandparents were tough and great-grandparents were tough."
Heitkamp responded by invoking an incident of sexual misconduct affecting her family itself:
"I think it's wonderful that his wife has never had an experience, and good for her, and it's wonderful his mom hasn't. My mom did. And I think it affected my mom her whole life. And it didn't make her less strong."
Cramer's remarks are just the latest in a long line of derogatory comments he has made, but if recent polling is accurate, they haven't done him enough damage to sink his campaign, at least not yet.