One challenge several candidates will face as they try to maintain their positions or move up in the polls is favorability ratings. A number of the Republican candidates may be near the ceiling of their potential support because of high negativity ratings, especially for those who have high name recognition; the voters have already made up their minds.
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said revelations that showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had a potential
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to the entry of former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and others into the 2016 Republican presidential contest. At the end of Paul’s appearance, host Sean Hannity brought
Paul also said he thinks what positions him best against Clinton is that his campaign launch—which started in Kentucky and had four more events in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa then Nevada—was presidential.
So, with all that said, 86 Republicans voted for a tax increase–and to violate Norquist’s pledge–when they voted for TAA last Friday. If they do it again on Tuesday, they’ll be violating it again–and of course if any other Republicans vote for TAA on Tuesday, if there is a vote, they’d be voting to violate Norquist’s pledge as well.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is calling on Republicans in the House—and the grassroots nationwide—to oppose efforts by House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to revive Obamatrade via a tax increase hidden inside the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) portion of the deal.
On Thursday’s “Kennedy” on the Fox Business Network, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, defended his positions on national security and foreign policy and pointed out that in his view it is paying dividends
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appeared undecided about a presidential run when he sat down with “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson this weekend.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,”Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a potential 2016 presidential candidate, criticized Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) for their stance against the NSA mass collection of Americans phone records. Christie said, “I’ m trying
MERRIMACK, New Hampshire — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is opening fire on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and everyone else who backed or is backing Obamatrade without reading the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) that Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) would fast track.
In an interview posted on Reason magazine’s website with magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, discussed Edward Snowden and how how he as commander-in-chief would handle the Snowden’s return. Welch asked
Two members of House GOP leadership—Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)—refused to admit through spokespersons to Breitbart News whether they have read the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal, but they still support granting President Barack Obama the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track it.
During a conversation with Florida Governor Rick Scott at his Economic Growth Summit, Christie asserted that leadership was showing an ability to compromise – pointing to his own compromises he made with the New Jersey Legislature as a political strength.
Tuesday in in Orlando at the Florida Economic Growth Summit, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said he was “upset” and “deeply troubled” about the debate over the NSA encroaching upon American’s civil liberties by the warrantless collection of bulk data that
“That’s what Senator Paul has done, he’s blocked a piece of legislation that actually advances some of the reforms he has previously said that he supports,” Spokesman Josh Earnest explained, adding that the legislation included some reforms to Patriot Act powers.
Many leading Republican presidential contenders are gathering at Walt Disney World today for an “Economic Growth Summit” organized by Gov. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) political committee, Let’s Get to Work.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a 2016 GOP presidential candidate who just single-handedly took down the National Security Agency (NSA) bulk data collection program by blocking reauthorization of the Patriot Act, is out with a new campaign ad on Monday evening detailing what he did and how.
Over the weekend, three provisions of the Patriot Act expired thanks to the machinations of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). That expiration drew the ire of major political figures from both sides of the aisle.
Rand Paul (R-KY) a day earlier in which he said that some of his colleagues may have been desirous of a terror attack in order to score political points against him. Limbaugh said Paul may have gone a little too
Rand Paul has planted his flag on some difficult ground, and quite frankly, successful presidential candidates don’t throw themselves into heavy intra-party fire and sustain major political wounds to prove ideological points. Perhaps he would do well to reconstruct his argument to emphasize the libertarian points where more of the Republican Party agrees with him, and more of the ever-shifting middle of the American electorate would be willing to listen.
Paul criticized—without naming names—GOP senators including Marco Rubio of Florida, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other Republicans like Jeb Bush for failing to listen to voters about their concerns with the NSA program.
Rubio echoed what McConnell said by calling Paul’s actions against the PATRIOT Act the “reckless spreading of misinformation and political posturing,” according to TampaBay.com.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Rand Rand Paul (R-KY) declared a “huge victory,” even though the Senate moved forward the USA Freedom Act 77-17, to reform the National Security Agency on Sunday night, as Paul was able to
“On a matter as critical as our national security, individual Senators must put aside their partisan motivations and act swiftly,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement last night. “The American people deserve nothing less.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans’ phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session.
