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Arizona race becomes a Trumpian hugfest. Will it cost the GOP a Senate seat?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - When Donald Trump ran for president, he didn't exactly wow Arizona. He carried the state with less than 50 percent support, though you'd never know it from Republicans vying in Tuesday's U.S. Senate primary.

Kelli Ward calls Trump one of the greatest presidents of all time. Martha McSally flew cross-country for a bill signing and brief presidential shout-out, which she immediately posted on Twitter.

Joe Arpaio boasts of a relationship going back years, to the time the former Maricopa County sheriff and Trump were a tag team peddling the fiction that Barack Obama was born outside the U.S.

The pledges of unflagging loyalty may be exactly what it takes to win the primary. But all that Trumpian devotion

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