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It’s going to be a “no” vote on Brett Kavanaugh from North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, one of the few Democratic senators who’d been undecided on the Supreme Court nominee.

Heitkamp told WDAY, a TV station in Fargo, that “the process has been bad, but at the end of the day you have to make a decision and I’ve made that decision.”

And Heitkamp, who’s facing a tight re-election race in a state that Donald Trump won by a large margin in 2016, then said: “I will be voting ‘no’ on Judge Kavanaugh.”

Heitkamp’s decision comes a week after a Senate committee hearing when a California college professor testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh also testified and denied Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations.

Heitkamp has come under pressure over where she stood on Kavanaugh’s nomination.

She is facing a GOP congressman, Kevin Cramer, in a race seen as critical for Republicans’ chances to keep the Senate.

When anti-Kavanaugh protesters outside the Supreme Court heard the news about Heitkamp, they let out a huge roar.

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