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AUSTIN — Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West on Sunday formally announced he’s challenging incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott in next year’s GOP gubernatorial primary. West, a former one-term Florida congressman and retired Army lieutenant colonel, told fellow parishioners at Sojourn Church in Carrollton that he’s running to help restore the country to its Christian roots. “I’ve not been in elected political office …

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