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Rand Paul (born January 7, 1963) is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, and currently serves as a conservative United States Senator from Kentucky. Rand is pro-life and spoke at the March for Life rally in 2013. He is also critical of federal spending and is emerging as a movement conservative. Unlike many politicians of both major political parties, Rand Paul supports sharply reducing the size of government. He has criticized pro-war politicians and won the CPAC straw poll in 2013 and 2014.

In 2010, he won the Republican primary after defeating moderate candidate Trey Grayson by a landslide. Despite intense opposition by liberals and the lamestream media, Rand Paul won by an overwhelming margin first against a RINO Republican favored by the establishment, and then against Democrat Jack Conway in the 2010 Midterm Election. This was the seat formerly held by Jim Bunning, one of the greatest conservative sports stars, who endorsed Paul in the Republican primary.

Rand Paul's father is Ron Paul. Rand Paul was not named after the objectivist and libertarian author Ayn Rand.[1]

On March 2013, Rand led a filibuster of Obama's CIA nomination John Brennan due to the fact that the administration was unwilling to forbid ordering drone targeting of Americans on American territories, in violation of the 5th Amendment. A month of letter writings without a reply and March 6th testimony from Attorney General Eric Holder prompted the filibuster. A number of GOP Senators joined him including Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, among others and one Democrat Senator, Ron Wyden. A vote on a non-binding statement clarifying that Obama shall not kill Americans with drone warfare was denied by Democrats in the Senate.

Julian Assange is a admirer of Rand Paul.[2]

On April 7, 2015, Paul announced that he would seek the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election.[3][4]

Rand Paul is pro-life. He opposes foreign interventionalism and perpetual war. Paul is against American intervention in the Syrian Civil War[5] and was opposed to the Operation Iraqi Freedom or the Patriot Act. He opposes gun control[6] and same-sex marriage.[7] Paul supports the Pathway to introduce illegal aliens to citizenship.[8] He opposes prison sentences for minor drug offenders.[9] Paul sued the Obama administration because it spied Americans by the NSA.[10] Paul is an opponent of the United States embargo against Cuba.[11]

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The Kentucky Republican is languishing in the low single digits in the polls as Trump and Cruz lead the pack in the GOP primary, but Paul said the prospect of a Trump presidency concerns him.

"I do worry a little bit more about Donald Trump," Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "The main reason I do is that I believe he wants more power to come to him and 'he'll take care of us all' if we just give him more power, but I'm from a limited government tradition."

The attack was an echo of attacks Paul made Wednesday, including comparing Trump to Gollum, a villain from "Lord of the Rings" who is corrupted by his quest for the powerful ring.

"I think what Trump wants is bad for America," Paul said.

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But Paul said he has concerns about both the billionaire businessman and Cruz, attacking both of them on foreign policy.

"I don't think (Trump) has a consistent foreign policy," Paul said, but "I do think that he and Ted Cruz that want to make the 'sand glow' ... I think if you do indiscriminate bombing in the Middle East, you may well create more terrorists than you kill."

He also attacked Cruz for flip-flopping on issues based on what's politically expedient.

"I think Ted Cruz's problem is one of authenticity right now," Paul said.

He mentioned that the Texas senator voted with Paul on a bill to rein in government surveillance, but that Cruz said in a debate that he voted for the bill because it allows the government to collect more records of terrorists.

Paul said the libertarian-minded voters that support him are turned off by that.

"Our people pause at that and say, 'My goodness, is he trying to have it both ways?'" Paul said. "That kind of leap back and forth and trying to have it both ways really we think is Cruz's biggest problem right now."

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Paul discussed the matter with staff Wednesday morning and sent out a statement confirming the decision to drop out of the Republican presidential primary.

"It's been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House," Paul said in the statement. "Today, I will end where I began, ready and willing to fight for the cause of Liberty."

Paul, a Kentucky Republican, is expected to instead place his focus squarely on his Senate reelection bid, where he faces a wealthy Democrat, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, who has the money to partially finance his campaign.

Paul finished a disappointing fifth place in Monday's Iowa caucuses, registering just 4.5% of the vote despite placing a heavy emphasis on the state's college towns to bring out younger voters inspired by his libertarian-minded message. He promised that night to continue his campaign.

Paul will not make an endorsement in the GOP presidential race before next week's New Hampshire primary, his spokesman Sergio Gor told CNN.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich told CNN he planned to call Paul, and that he wished him the best.

"I don't think he'll be for me, but I like him a lot. And I think he brought a lot to the race and I think the issues about the balance between the need for security and personal liberty was an important one. He's a good man and I wish him nothing but the best," Kasich said, adding that, if needed, he would campaign for him in his Kentucky Senate race.

Sources close to Paul said a review of their results made clear to Paul that there was not a viable path to winning the Republican nomination and that fund-raising was becoming extremely difficult.

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Indeed, as the New Hampshire primary approaches, where his father Ron Paul won 23% of the vote in 2012, polls have found the younger Paul struggling to gain traction.

Paul's calls for a less aggressive foreign policy, which his critics have dubbed as "isolationist," failed to connect with GOP voters at a time of growing national security fears. Moreover, Paul had a hard time reestablishing his father's libertarian coalition because he had sought to broaden his appeal to more establishment-minded Republicans, hurting his credibility with some in his core base of supporters.

Dropping out this early is a disappointment for Paul. He had engineered a major change in Kentucky's primary system to allow him to run for two offices at the same time, a move aimed at circumventing a prohibition in state law prohibiting candidates from doing so. The state party agreed to change its traditional paper ballot primary to a caucus system in early March, in order to let him avoid the restriction that he couldn't appear on the ballot twice.

Still, as he now focuses on his Senate race, he remains the heavy favorite in a state that has grown increasingly red.

"The Democrat Party in Kentucky has been very wounded by President Obama," Paul told CNN Sunday when asked if he were concerned about Gray's candidacy.

Paul's campaign account tweeted a reminiscent video Wednesday morning, thanking his supporters and featuring highlights from the senator's presidential bid.

CNN's Chris Frates contributed to this report.

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Rand Paul (born January 7, 1963) is the United States junior Senator for the state of Kentucky. He is a member of the Republican Party who describes himself as a libertarian.

Rand Paul: What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

Robert Siegel: But are you saying that had you been around at the time, you would have hoped that you would have marched with Martin Luther King but voted with Barry Goldwater against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Rand Paul: Well, actually, I think it's confusing on a lot of cases with what actually was in the civil rights case because, see, a lot of the things that actually were in the bill, I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism. So I think there's a lot to be desired in the civil rights. And to tell you the truth, I haven't really read all through it because it was passed 40 years ago and hadn't been a real pressing issue in the campaign, on whether we're going to vote for the Civil Rights Act.

Rand Paul: I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form; I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. We still do have private clubs in America that can discriminate based on race. But I think what's important about this debate is not written into any specific "gotcha" on this, but asking the question: what about freedom of speech? Should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? Should we limit racists from speaking? I don't want to be associated with those people, but I also don't want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that's one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn't mean we approve of it. I think the problem with this debate is by getting muddled down into it, the implication is somehow that I would approve of any racism or discrimination, and I don't in any form or fashion.

I do defend and believe that the government should not be involved with institutional racism or discrimination or segregation in schools, busing, all those things. But had I been there, there would have been some discussion over one of the titles of the civil rights. And I think that's a valid point, and still a valid discussion, because the thing is, is if we want to harbor in on private businesses and their policies, then you have to have the discussion about: do you want to abridge the First Amendment as well. Do you want to say that because people say abhorrent things you know, we still have this. We're having all this debate over hate speech and this and that. Can you have a newspaper and say abhorrent things? Can you march in a parade and believe in abhorrent things, you know?

The outrage in Ferguson is understandablethough there is never an excuse for rioting or looting. There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

The images and scenes we continue to see in Ferguson resemble war more than traditional police action.

Not surprisingly, big government has been at the heart of the problem. Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armieswhere police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

This is usually done in the name of fighting the war on drugs or terrorism.

Given these developments, it is almost impossible for many Americans not to feel like their government is targeting them. Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

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