“Through a throng of jubilant supporters, someone called out what most of the room was thinking: ‘Senator Heitkamp!’

“Heidi Heitkamp, hoarse from the final days of her campaign but jubilant herself, said the credit lay with the people cheering her on.

“‘To the extent people are calling this historic, to the extent people are calling this an upset, pat yourselves on the back,’ she told a packed crowd at Fargo’s Teamsters Hall this morning,” via Forum of Fargo Moorhead.