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Will Hurd wants to make one thing clear. “I’m not going to support Trump,” the former congressman for Texas’s Twenty-third Congressional District (a massive district encompassing parts of both South and West Texas along the Mexican border) and onetime rising star in the Republican Party told me by phone. “My goal right now is to be the Republican nominee.”Can he win? Probably not. Hurd entered the race after a dozen others had already declared and is quick to refer to himself as a “dark horse candidate.” One poll released earlier this month had him registering just 1 percent support; another found that only a paltry 8 percent of Republican voters had a favorable opinion of him.It wasn’t destined to be this way, though. Back in…

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