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Charlie Rangel faces tough primary

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) arrives on Capitol Hill

Photo credit: Getty Images | Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed briefing about U.S. military action in Libya. (March 30, 2011)

Lose? Be replaced? Charlie Rangel sounded perplexed about why or how it might possibly happen.

"It's hard for me to think there's anyone who could think they can do a better job than me," the veteran Harlem congressman, a fixture in Washington since 1971, told reporters gathered at City Hall earlier this month to hear Comptroller John Liu endorse Rangel.

His self-confidence may be unshaken,...

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