"No matter how much support you get from insiders, activists, fund raisers, you still gotta run the gauntlet, " says longtime Republican strategist Charles Black.

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"You gotta line them up and run them, " Lukas said.

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At some point, though, when you feel the tug, you just gotta know that the string has run out and you probably should pack it in.

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