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Legitimate tea party challenge. there had been some discussion of whether cornyn was adequately loyal to ted cruz, whether he em braszed the ted cruz view of the world. stockman might be the one to exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as ive said before, was a prank. it seemed like something that the cornyn campaign created just to make him look awesome. >> yeah. >> be...

Last second of the last hour of filing day, we thought, wow, cornyn may actually have a legitimate tea party challenge. there had been some discussion of whether cornyn was adequately loyal to ted cruz, whether he embraced the ted cruz view of the world. stockman might be the one to exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as ive said before, was a prank. it seemed like so...

>> joining me now, evan smith, ceo and editor in chief of "texas tribune." evan, where do i want to start in lets start with the bizarre spectacle of the steve stockman campaign which i gather even folks in texas are having a real hard time making heads or tails of. >> right, well, we know stockman as well as anybody. hes been elected two different times. nonconsecutive terms to the congress from texas. weve watched him up close and have a sense of who he is. i dont even think those of us who kn...