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Could heidi heitkamp lose the seat after voting no? >> reporter: heidi heitkamp having fun, walking in a classic north dakota parade. >> hi there. >> hi. >> reporter: her smile masks her political reality. she's the most endangered senate democrat. and those voting against brett kavanaugh probably didn't help. >> it's been a tough week for me. the political rhetoric is, you can't vote that way if you expect to come back. and i tell people, my parents didn't raise me to vote a certain way so i could win. they raised me to vote the right way. >> reporter: applause here, but elsewhere, reminders ...

Listening audience. i was kind of surprised at the result. >> you believe still that despite the polling out there that shows her down quite a bit, she can still overcome it. i know she overcame a ten-point deficit in 2012. >> she did. she overcame a ten-point deficit. i don't believe it's 12 points. i'm pretty confident it's not. because she's my sister, i get to know things. ed in -- m.north dakota, it doesn't poll well. it's a whole different philosophy. this vote probably didn't help. you can't really spin that it helped. people are proud of her. i bet you she put her cell phone away and s...

Explain how these latest details illuminate that point. >> coming into where they are today, wasn't able to locate a supposed assault, the time or date, and the early '80s, made '80s, she was a young teenager, a little bit older. there was a lot of doubt. we had the collapse of the six accuser, the fifth or third, second, ramirez -- that didn't help. we have the boyfriend coming forward. her own testimony, that she admitted that she flies regular, corroborated by the boyfriend. the two door thing, people in palo alto have to go doors for a purpose, not because they are claustrophobic, but beca...

What's your impression of it? >> my impression is that the interview didn't help miss swetnick corroborate her claims. she, if anything, changed a few details. and number two, and this is important because it goes back to the original declaration submitted by michael avenatti, she is not alleging that brett kavanaugh attacked her or committed a crime against her. and so that makes her -- although she has been lumped in by some as one of the so-called accusers, that makes her fundamentally different by her own claims than dr. ford. >> you heard cynthia oxney saying she found christine blasey fo...

To talk about the status of puerto rico, but about the fact that we ought to be treated as regular american citizens, regardless of what the status is. >> yeah. some people who live in puerto ri rico, 200,000 of them, have left the island and gone back to the main land here. do you see that affecting politics here on the mainland? do you see them registering to vote, actually making their voices heard? >> we do, and we hope that the new puerto rican families who have joined hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans who have been in florida, moving for the last decade remember who helped puerto ri...