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By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Change? For sure. Hope? Maybe not so much.

That's Rand Paul's approach to winning the White House when the original hope-and-change candidate, Barack Obama, vacates it in early 2017.

Ready to enter the chase for the Republican presidential nomination this week, the first-term Kentucky senator has designs on changing how members of his party go about getting elected to the White House and how they govern once they get there.

He will do so with an approach to politics that is often downbeat and usually dour, which just might work in a nation deeply frustrated with Washington.

Since his election to Congress, and in the lead-up to his entry into the presidential race, Paul has favored blunt takes on America's woes instead of the sunny earnestness that helped fuel Obama's rise to popularity in 2007 and 2008.

Consider Paul's response this year to Obama's State of the Union address, a speech filled by presidents of all parties with bullish predictions for the nation's future. Paul's message that night was downright sullen.

"I wish I had better news for you, but all is not well in America," Paul said. Much of the country, he said, "still suffers."

Paul is set to declare his candidacy during a speech in his home state of Kentucky on Tuesday. Expect Paul to outline a vision for America that doesn't fit any of the traditional Republican molds.

He would alter the scale and mandate of the federal government in more radical ways than other members of the GOP. And he bucks party ideology in standing against government surveillance, for deep cuts in military spending and in questioning the wisdom of harsh sentences for drug offenders who cost government billions to imprison.

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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., came under fire this week from presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for a vote against a National Security Agency reform bill last year.

CNN reported Thursday that Cruz said Paul stalled NSA reform efforts by voting against the bill. He described Paul, a Bowling Green resident, as a good friend but said his vote against the bill was unfortunate.

Ill tell you, (Sen.) Mike Lee and I were both deeply dismayed that it was our single best chance to end the bulk collection of metadata, Cruz said, according to CNN.

In November, Paul talked to the Daily News about his vote on bill, saying he was torn about it.

Paul said at the time that while the NSA reform bill sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., would have done some good things, it would also have reauthorized some provisions of the Patriot Act through 2017. That act, Paul noted, is what allowed such collection of information to happen in the first place.

It was one of those situations where youre torn, he said. Cruz last week became the first major contender to officially announce his candidacy for president.

Paul is expected to announce his run Tuesday during a rally at the Galt House in Louisville. He has mostly stayed out of the media spotlight this week, declining to issue comments to some national media organizations about topics including Indianas religious freedom law and a nuclear deal with Iran, according to the Huffington Post.

Paul representatives said he is spending time with family and not doing media interviews this week, according to the Huffington Post.

While his social media platforms have also been relatively quiet, Paul retweeted a story Thursday from NationalJournal about supersecret smartphones used by the Defense Department. His account toutedwww.nationaljournal.com/tech/nsa-smartphone-pentagon-20150331 as a must read.

Cruz has had success in fundraising since his announcement. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Cruz has raised $4 million since launching his campaign. His campaign said 95 percent of contributions came in amounts of $100 or less.

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Sen. Rand Paul walks into the Associated Builders and Contractors of Indiana/ Kentucky office in Bowling Green, Ky., on Monday, March 23, 2015, where he gave a speech and answered questions.(Photo: AP)

WASHINGTON When Sen. Rand Paul spoke in February to a conservative gathering just outside the nation's capital, the Kentucky Republican promised to propose a tax cut.

But not just any tax cut "the largest tax cut in American history," Paul told the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The details of his plan would be revealed "in the coming weeks," he said.

Now, as he prepares to announce a White House bid, Paul's vision of what amounts to a massive taxpayer refund from a government he wants to make smaller is certain to be a centerpiece of his campaign.

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Paul who is expected to announce his bid Tuesday at Louisville's Galt House cut his political teeth on the theme of reducing the size of government and slashing spending. His tea party-backed candidacy for the Senate in 2010 was successful largely because he adhered to that message.

But based on his talking points during his travels around the country over the past couple of years, taxes, spending and the role of government are just some of the issues likely to form the core of his bid.

The senator's overall message, as he articulated in his response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in January, is that "all is not well in America. America is adrift."

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