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She didn't say it outright, but Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the head of the committee tasked with electing Democrats to the Senate, suggested Wednesday that she considers Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz a likely winner in November. During a briefing with reporters Wednesday, Yahoo News asked the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairwoman about her level of confidence in Paul Sadler, the Democrat running against Cruz for the seat. Citing his tea party support, Cruz is more of a problem for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell than for Democrats, she responded. "We're monitoring Texas, as we are all states, talking to people on the ground," Murray said. "Let me just say, he won last night, he had a very compelling story, but I think the bigger issue there is that Mitch McConnell is now going to have a potentially much more tea party-oriented caucus and we have all seen the damage that has done to our ability to govern, to find compromise, to move this country...