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The Democrat challenger to Senator Lamar Alexander told WREG-TV he will not quit the race.

The Tennessee Republican Party is calling on Gordon Ball to bow out after a national website accused him of plagiarism.

BuzzFeed claims Ball’s website lifted position statements from other well-known Democratic senators and passed them off as his words.

Ball said he was unaware the text had been taken from various sources.