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article_snippet.sent: Ellmers, an intensive-care nurse who married a surgeon, plays an unwitting part in his Esquire Network documetary program that chronicles his failed bid for a seat in the House of Representatives. '
article_snippet.sent: He won the Democratic primary when He chief rival, businessman Keith Crisco, died suddenly after a fall.
article_snippet.sent: Crisco was a former state secretary of commerce and a political veteran.
highlights_snippet.sent: North Carolina political also-ran also called