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US Presidential Race Impacting Republican-led Senate

At campaign stops across America, ultra-conservative Republican Senator Ted Cruz bellows a rhetorical challenge to his competitors for the party's presidential nomination. "When have you stood against Washington? When have you taken on, not just Democrats, but leaders in our own party?" Cruz asked recently in New Hampshire. Cruz is not alone in slamming the ways of Washington. "It's a two-party problem," said Senator Rand Paul, another Republican...

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