Here are two sentences:
" Our party will never be the choice of the NRA - and I am not looking to be the candidate of the NRA , " he said .
Our party will never be the choice of the N.R.A. , and I 'm not looking to be the candidate of the N.R.A. , " a reference to the National Rifle Association .
Do they have the same meaning?

(a). no
(b). yes
(b).