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Where Things Stand: Complicated, 11th Hour Affair Allegation Ends Texas GOP Incumbent’s Reelection Bid
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“She was just annoyed at having to see her ex-lover’s face on billboards as she drove around Plano.”
According to the Dallas Morning News, that was Plano, Texas resident Tania Joya’s justification for spilling the beans about an affair she had with incumbent Rep. Van Taylor (R-TX) to one of his opponents ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
Look, we’ve all been there.
But there’s a lot of other stuff going on here — far more, in fact, than Joya’s very valid logic. Let’s unpack.
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