Trump to campaign in N. Dakota for Rep. Kevin Cramer

By ALEX ISENSTADT 06/15/2018 08:30 PM EDT

President Donald Trump will visit North Dakota on June 27 to campaign with GOP Rep. Kevin Cramer, a trip that could go a long way toward extinguishing tensions between the White House and the Senate hopeful.

Trump’s planned trip to Fargo, which the candidate announced on Friday on Twitter, came after Cramer took the unusual step of publicly attacking the administration for its seemingly warm treatment of his Democratic opponent, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.

During a recent North Dakota radio interview, Cramer lashed out at the White House legislative affairs director, Marc Short, who played a central role in inviting Heitkamp to a high-profile bill signing with the president last month in the White House.

“If Marc Short was very good at his job, you know, we’d have a repeal and replacement of Obamacare, we’d have a replacement of the venting and flaring rule,” Cramer said in the interview.

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