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| Rand Paul: 'I am running for president' – live updates | Rand Paul: 'I am running for president' – live updates |
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| 10.41am ET15:41 | |
| Here’s another Rand Paul title: Guardian op-ed contributor. | |
| Paul wrote an editorial for the Guardian in February 2014 attacking director of national intelligence James Clapper as a liar and calling dragnet government surveillance programs “blatantly unconstitutional.” Here’s a taste: | |
| Part of the reason our government does some things behind Americans’ backs is not for security, but because certain activities, if known, would outrage the public. | |
| Spying on every American certainly falls into this category. I also believe it is blatantly unconstitutional, and bringing these activities to light would immediately spark debates the NSA would rather not hear. | |
| For the record, Paul’s Comment Is Free bio reads: “Rand Paul is the US senator for Kentucky, representing the Republican party. Follow him on Twitter @SenRandPaul.” | |
| We’re alerting production to that dead link. Embarrassing! (h/t: @kaylaepstein) | |
| 10.31am ET15:31 | |
| In a bid for a new job, he’s taken his old job back. | |
| Rand Paul has removed some references to himself as “senator” from his web sites and official Twitter account and replaced the honorific with “doctor”, in an apparent rebranding meant to increase his appeal as a presidential candidate. | |
| Paul, who was a practicing ophthalmologist for two decades before running for the Senate in 2010, may be on to something. | |
| In a 2009 Gallup poll, 73% of respondents said they were confident in their doctors’ recommendations for health care reform, while less than half that many, 34%, expressed confidence in Republicans in Congress. | |
| Paul is both a doctor and a Republican in Congress. But on Twitter, apparently as of today, he is only the former. His erstwhile handle, @senrandpaul, has been retired, although its archived tweets now surface in the @randpaul account. To wit: | |
| . @BarackObama to @Pontifex: Forgive me father for I have spied. #NSA | |
| Paul is also running for the Senate again in 2016 – call it a backup plan – but even his official Senate campaign site appears to prefer the doctor moniker: | |
| Note that some of Paul’s campaign materials retain references to his current day job; see for example the screen shot in the previous post, which captures one reference each to the man’s two titles. | |
| Updated at 10.34am ET | |
| 9.53am ET14:53 | 9.53am ET14:53 |
| Rand Paul: 'I am running for president' | Rand Paul: 'I am running for president' |
| Paul appears to have scooped himself on his new campaign website, randpaul.com. | Paul appears to have scooped himself on his new campaign website, randpaul.com. |
| “I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” the site quotes the senator as saying. | “I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” the site quotes the senator as saying. |
| The site hosts a testimonial video by Paul’s wife, Kelley Ashby Paul. “We started talking, and during our conversation I realized that he was not a teen, he was 26,” she says. | The site hosts a testimonial video by Paul’s wife, Kelley Ashby Paul. “We started talking, and during our conversation I realized that he was not a teen, he was 26,” she says. |
| Updated at 10.03am ET | Updated at 10.03am ET |
| 9.49am ET14:49 | 9.49am ET14:49 |
| Summary | Summary |
| Rand Paul is set to become the second Republican to enter the 2016 presidential race on Tuesday with an announcement at a midday event at a hotel in Louisville called the Galt House, a 1970s monstrosity on the banks of the Ohio. | Rand Paul is set to become the second Republican to enter the 2016 presidential race on Tuesday with an announcement at a midday event at a hotel in Louisville called the Galt House, a 1970s monstrosity on the banks of the Ohio. |
| The Kentucky senator was preceded into the race Senate colleague Ted Cruz, who got in almost two weeks ago. The Republican field was expected to grow to as many as 20 candidates. | The Kentucky senator was preceded into the race Senate colleague Ted Cruz, who got in almost two weeks ago. The Republican field was expected to grow to as many as 20 candidates. |
| Paul is an eye surgeon who grew up in Texas and made it to the Senate in 2010 in his first-ever run for elected office, carried to victory by a wave of Tea Party activism and by his own long experience on the campaign trail alongside his father, Ron Paul, who made a surprisingly robust run at the presidency in 2008 (of three runs). | Paul is an eye surgeon who grew up in Texas and made it to the Senate in 2010 in his first-ever run for elected office, carried to victory by a wave of Tea Party activism and by his own long experience on the campaign trail alongside his father, Ron Paul, who made a surprisingly robust run at the presidency in 2008 (of three runs). |
| The younger Paul has inherited his father’s knack for lighting up the grassroots – especially young voters – and, if you like your politics with a little rah-rah, hey-hey, today’s for you. The chant to remember is Stand! With! Rand! | The younger Paul has inherited his father’s knack for lighting up the grassroots – especially young voters – and, if you like your politics with a little rah-rah, hey-hey, today’s for you. The chant to remember is Stand! With! Rand! |
| Paul scares the establishment a little bit for seeming quite serious in the past about creating a new libertarian heaven on American earth, whether by mothballing federal agencies, abolishing the IRS or ending all foreign aid to Israel. | Paul scares the establishment a little bit for seeming quite serious in the past about creating a new libertarian heaven on American earth, whether by mothballing federal agencies, abolishing the IRS or ending all foreign aid to Israel. |
| Candidate Paul has begun to ameliorate some of those views. But where, exactly, does this Rand who wants people to stand with him stand? Join us! Today! To find out. | Candidate Paul has begun to ameliorate some of those views. But where, exactly, does this Rand who wants people to stand with him stand? Join us! Today! To find out. |