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Boston Globe - Politics
Cornyn's defeat fuels tensions with Trump in Senate GOP -- Senator John Cornyn's colleagues saw the president's last-minute endorsement of his scandal-mired opponent as a move to punish a senator whom Trump deemed insufficiently loyal.
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