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Republicans from all across Kentucky will be in the audience next week when Sen. Rand Paul announces his presidential run in Louisville with one big exception.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Pauls national bid. But there are official endorsements and then there are endorsements with all the accouterments fundraising help, stops on the campaign trail, leaning on fellow pols to get on board and McConnells imprimatur is decidedly in the former category.
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In the latest twist in a relationship between two politicians who in many respects are polar opposites, the Republican leader wont be on hand for his junior senators White House campaign kickoff. Sources familiar with his decision insisted its not meant as a slight: McConnell is simply following through on his pledge not to campaign for Paul, lest he play favorites among the three other members of his conference planning or eyeing bids of their own.
While McConnell has made his support for Rand known, he also has a job to do as majority leader, said one Republican official with knowledge of their relationship. With several members of his conference running for the same office, its just easier for him to do his day job that way.
The two Kentucky Republicans cut very different profiles one is the embodiment of the party establishment, the other a tea party libertarian yet theyve formed an alliance the past few years that has paid political dividends for both. Each has helped the others cause with the part of the GOP in which hes weakest Pauls endorsement of McConnells reelection last year helped the GOP leader court the conservative grass roots, and McConnell has lent Paul cred with more mainstream Republicans as he tries to broaden his appeal for 2016.
But McConnells move to skip Pauls presidential launch shows the limits of their alliance.
McConnell isnt the only lawmaker grappling with the presidential ambitions of colleagues from their states delegation. In states such as Florida, where Sen. Marco Rubio plans to formally announce his bid in mid-April, Republicans like Rep. John Mica are instead supporting their states former governor, Jeb Bush. In South Carolina, Sen. Tim Scott plans to stay neutral even as his senior colleague from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, is openly toying with a run. And in Texas, conservative firebrand Ted Cruz has won few allies in his states delegation, with many eager to jump behind another candidate or stay out of the race altogether.
Asked about Cruz, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions said he believes his states delegation will instead rally behind a Republican candidate with wider appeal.
We need someone who can win the state of Florida, can win the state of Pennsylvania and can win the state of Ohio, Sessions said. We can have favorite sons. There is nothing wrong with that, but Republicans want to win before we want an ideological [candidate].
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At an event in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Thursday, the presidential candidate was asked by a voter why he voted in favor of extending the Patriot Act. The voter was referring to a piece of legislation that sought to curb the government's meta data phone collection effort.
Paul, though a stalwart critic of the NSA, indeed voted against the bill, saying it didn't go far enough. The legislation "did not fix the problem" and reauthorized expiring parts of the Patriot Act, Paul's top adviser said Thursday.
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"Others are welcome to their decision to compromise on American's 4th Amendment rights, but not to cast it misleadingly as a vote for liberty," Doug Stafford said.
Cruz on Thursday, trying to defend his own record on civil liberties, said Paul "is a good friend" but argued that Kentucky Republican stalled NSA reform efforts.
"Unfortunately, Rand voted no," Cruz said. "He did say it didn't go far enough, but it failed by one vote."
The measure actually failed by two votes, but Cruz brushed off the second vote, saying it was simply a procedural move by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"I'll tell you, (Utah Sen.) Mike Lee and I were both deeply dismayed that it was our single best chance to end the bulk collection of meta data," Cruz said.
The first-term senator from Texas made his comments on the second day of his first trip to Iowa since declaring his presidential run last week.
Paul, who's expected to announce his own campaign next week in Kentucky, wasted no time going after Cruz once Cruz became a candidate. Just hours after Cruz announced his presidential bid last week in Virginia, Paul argued on Fox News that he was more electable than Cruz in a general election against Hillary Clinton.
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