Some GOP presidential candidates come to the RedState Gathering with an entourage and even bodyguards.

Others arrive incognito. This morning, a stranger tapped attorney John Breakfield on the shoulder and asked for directions. It was the former governor of Texas, fresh from that first debate in Cleveland:

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