Rand Paul Clears Path For 2016 Presidential Run

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ALEXANDER BURNS
Politico
May 10, 2013

When Rand Paul touches down in Iowa Friday, it will be almost exactly three years to the day after his landslide 2010 Senate primary victory — an unlikely and decisive triumph over the Republican establishment that instantly transformed Paul into a national political phenomenon.

Now, as Paul weighs a 2016 presidential bid, a different kind of challenge confronts him: Can the plain-spoken former Bowling Green ophthalmologist build a campaign to back up his popular appeal?

For all Paul’s success as a media brand and a mobilizer of the conservative grassroots, the Kentucky senator has done relatively little since 2010 to assemble a political machine around his own personality. For now, the Rand Paul project is a high-wire act that works largely without a net.

Paul’s political action committee, RAND PAC, has only just now hired a spokesman, sources said: former Michele Bachmann aide Sergio Gor. While Paul has reached out to key figures in the GOP donor community, much of his fundraising still happens over the Internet — though he’ll court Silicon Valley moguls at multiple meet-and-greet events later this month in California, according to a top aide.

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This article was posted: Friday, May 10, 2013 at 7:47 am





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