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Former New York Yankees player and World Series champion Mark Teixeira launched his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, angering liberals.

While many of Teixeria’s long-time fans supported the former MLB All-Star for taking a shot at public office, his admission of being a “lifelong conservative” and his campaign principles were met with outrage from certain individuals on the left.

“Since I was [six] years old I’ve had a poster of Mark Teixeira in my room, spent hundreds of dollars on his jerseys and baseball cards. Truly my favorite Yankee growing up Sucks that he’s a MAGA freak now,” one user wrote on X.

Another X user wrote, “Mark Teixeira being a MAGA POS doesn’t surprise me one bit.”

One user even went so far as

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