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BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP) — Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota got a hard sell last week from President Donald Trump, who gave Cramer and his wife a personal tour of the West Wing and used the gilded luster of the newly renovated Oval Office to entreat Cramer to challenge popular Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. It didn't work: Cramer turned down Trump, who had also called him about the race last fall. It's the latest in a string of complications for Senate Republicans, who are clinging to a paper-thin majority and entering a m...