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Voters in three states are heading to the polls on Tuesday, with a four-term incumbent Republican senator in Texas seeking to fend off a primary challenge from his state’s starkly conservative attorney general while Democrats will be choosing their own candidate in hopes of breaking their decades-long losing streak in the state. There are also