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“We’re going to end up spending hundreds of millions of dollars potentially on this race in Texas because we can’t lose the seat in Texas, and that is money that can’t be used in places like Michigan,...
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“I would certainly love to have President Trump’s endorsement. I think I would be the death knell to John Cornyn,”

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