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The administration “appears to be dead set on liquidating our public lands as quickly as possible,” said Drew McConville, senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit.

“It was like I was dead set on proving everybody I was a real Class-A f— up,” he said.

"The very fact they were dead set on employing these independent advocates themselves says something about the culture - its control, and just not even beginning to understand the nature of independence."

“He is dead set on it,” president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said at MLB’s winter meetings.

Cruz has said for months that he would run a competitive race, dead set on not repeating the surprisingly close challenge by former U.S.