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I've got the most beautiful district. I can understand why Republicans want it.

I'm a conservative Republican.

I am very much a Republican.

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

I have a lot of Republican friends.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.