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Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, a candidate for U.S. Senate, at a TribLive event on Sept. 9, 2011.

At this morning's TribLive conversation, U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz explained why the presumed front-runner in the GOP primary race, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, is the wrong man for the job.

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