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'''Dwayne Bradley Stovall''' (born 1966) is a businessman and school board member from Cleveland in Liberty County in southeastern [[Texas]], who is a [[Republican]] candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in the [[primary]] election scheduled for March 4, 2014. He and six challengers, including [[U.S. Representative]] [[Steve Stockman]], are seeking to deny re-nomination to [[John Cornyn]], who has held the seat since 2002 and is the Senate Minority Whip.
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'''Dwayne Bradley Stovall''' (born 1966) is a businessman and school board member from Cleveland in Liberty County in southeastern [[Texas]], who was a [[Republican]] candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in the [[primary]] election held on March 4, 2014. He and six challengers, including [[U.S. Representative]] [[Steve Stockman]], failed to deny re-nomination to [[John Cornyn]], who has held the seat since 2002 and is the Senate Minority Whip. Cornyn won nearly three-fifths of the votes cast in his party primary.
 
   
 
   
 
On his website, the [[conservative]] Stovall calls himself a "small-r republican ... who refuses to remain silent while tyranny grows and liberty is destroyed."<ref name=dbstovall/>
 
On his website, the [[conservative]] Stovall calls himself a "small-r republican ... who refuses to remain silent while tyranny grows and liberty is destroyed."<ref name=dbstovall/>
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Stovall, who often drives his truck alone to campaign events, considers himself as "an average Texan" who believes that the position of U.S. senator has "become grossly misused. ... A senator’s job is to look out for [his] state's respective interest, not the interests of the federal government."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kfyo.com/u-s-senate-candidate-dwayne-stovall-aims-to-bring-federalism-back-to-the-legislature-audio/|title=Ariel Walden, "U.S. Senate Candidate Dwayne Stovall Aims to Bring Federalism Back to the Legislature," November 13, 2013|publisher=KFYO-TV|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref>
 
Stovall, who often drives his truck alone to campaign events, considers himself as "an average Texan" who believes that the position of U.S. senator has "become grossly misused. ... A senator’s job is to look out for [his] state's respective interest, not the interests of the federal government."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kfyo.com/u-s-senate-candidate-dwayne-stovall-aims-to-bring-federalism-back-to-the-legislature-audio/|title=Ariel Walden, "U.S. Senate Candidate Dwayne Stovall Aims to Bring Federalism Back to the Legislature," November 13, 2013|publisher=KFYO-TV|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}</ref>
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Stovall finished third in the Senate race with 140,407 votes (10.7 percent); Stockman second with 250,759 (19.1 percent). Cornyn polled 778,967 votes (59.44 percent). Stovall even lost his home county of Liberty to Cornyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/mar04_169_state.htm?x=0&y=73&id=520|title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014|publisher=team1.sos.state.tx.us|accessdate=March 7, 2014}}</ref>
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