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Indiana candidate's rhetoric, business record don't line up

Oklahoma truck driver Timothy Jackson was recovering from emergency heart surgery when he learned he'd lost his job — and his health insurance along with it — because managers at the company's Indiana headquarters decided he wasn't healthy enough to work. The multimillionaire who owns that business, former Indiana state Rep. Mike Braun, is locked in a bitter Republican primary with two congressmen for the right to challenge Democrat Joe Donnelly in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races. Braun has blamed "career politicians" for outsourcing good-paying jobs overseas, while pledging he'll help bring them back.