Three Republican candidates are duking it out for the chance to take on Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall.

Rep. Bob Turner, who became a GOP darling after winning Anthony Weiner’s Queens-Brooklyn seat in a special-election upset last year, announced his candidacy after that seat was eliminated during redistricting.

Wendy Long, a conservative legal scholar who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has the backing of the Conservative Party.

And Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos has

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