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      <excerpt>...away. It will pit him against, among others, two fellow Republicans he has supported financially in the past: incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett and former congressional candidate Tim Bridgewater. Lampropoulos, who annually is one of the state's largest politic</excerpt>
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