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TIME Politics Rand Paul Paul J. RichardsAFP/Getty Images US Senator Ted Cruz( R-TX) smiles at the crowd while delivering remarks announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination to run for US president March 23, 2015, inside the full Vine Center at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va.

Rand Paul has his sights set on Ted Cruz.

As his Lone Star colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz, announced his candidacy Monday, Paul took to Twitter, asking his following to retweet a two part message: Stand with Rand. His supporters at Virginias Liberty University got it, trolling the cameras in red shirts with Pauls mantra.

Several hours later, Paul went on Fox News The Kelly File, which aired an hour before Cruz appeared on Sean Hannitys show. Paul attacked Cruz for being unable to spread his message past his speechs largely favorable Christian audience, which, as Paul noted at least twice, were composed of students required to attend.

Ted Cruz is a conservative, but it also goes to winnability, said Paul, noting that hes traveled to liberal redoubts like Berkeley, Calif., and spoken at historically black colleges. Ive spent the last couple years going places Republicans havent gone and maybe not just throwing out red meat but actually throwing out something intellectually enticing to people who havent been listening to our message before.

Thats the way you win general elections, he added.

Pauls double-barreled Internet and TV attacks came before he officially enters the race he has scheduled a major announcement on April 7 followed by a tour of the early primary states. But they show his primary problem: he is largely competing for the same slices of conservative voters with Cruz even as he tries to expand the traditional Republican electorate.

I didnt find much I disagreed with, said Paul of Cruzs speech on Fox. We kind of come from the same wing of the party and if you look at our voting records youll find that were very, very similar.

The two conservative senators approach politics through different ideological frames: Pauls a libertarian who wants a bigger tent in the GOP; Cruz is a conservative who wants to turn out more of the base. Today, roughly half of born again Christians arent voting, he said in his campaign announcement. Theyre staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.

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Why Rand Paul is Attacking Ted Cruz

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, says one difference between himself and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas might be winnability and that he is polling the strongest against former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner for president in 2016.

Ted Cruz and I come from the same wing of the party, Mr. Paulsaid on Fox News Hannity. So sometimes youll have two very conservative, two senators who support the Constitution, and youll have to look for nuances of difference between the two, and one of those might be winnability.

Mr. Cruz became the first major presidential candidate to jump into the race for the White House this week, and he and Mr. Paul have indeed fought on the same side of many fights in the U.S. Senate.

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When you look at polling right now, youll find that nobody in the Republican party does better against Hillary Clinton than myself, and I think thats because weve tried very hard to pick up [the] independent vote and voters who havent been voting Republican, and frankly, thats how you win elections, Mr. Paul said.

In a recent CNN/ORC poll, Mr. Paul trailed Mrs. Clinton by 11 points, 54 percent to 43 percent, but was closer than other potential GOP contenders such as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.

Mr. Paul said his goal over the last couple of years has been to take a consistent defense of liberty, but to take it to new places where it hasnt been heard in hopes that we can get a bigger party and a more national party.

So Ive been to Howard, Ive been to Bowie State, Ive been to the Urban League, Ive been to NAACP, Ive been to Berkeley trying to broaden the people, and the amount of people [I] bring in and not just toss out things that may well inflame the situation and excite certain people, but might turn off other people, he said. But Ill also put up my record as being as conservative as anybody, if not more conservative, than anybody in the Congress.

Speaking on Fox News The Kelly File, Mr. Cruz said they reassembled the Reagan coalition when he got elected to the Senate.

We brought together conservatives and libertarians and evangelicals and women and young people [and] Hispanics and Reagan Democrats, he said.

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Presumed GOP presidential candidate appearing at Iowa Memorial Union

By Ed Tibbetts, Quad-City Times

March 24, 2015 | 2:09 pm

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul will include a stop at the University of Iowa on a tour of early states in what is expected to be his official announcement that hes running for president in 2016.

Paul is expected to kick off his campaign April 7 in Kentucky. On April 10, he is planning a 10 a.m. speech at the Iowa Memorial Union on the Iowa campus.

An online event invitation calls the Iowa City speech an historic event.

Johnson County is typically seen as a Democratic bastion, but Paul has been appealing to young voters and minorities across the country.

Steve Grubbs, an Iowa adviser, said Paul does well with college students, and the campaign is going to emphasize that point of strength.

The Republican field is expected to be quite large. And it is just beginning to take form. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, officially announced his candidacy on Monday. And he and Paul may well end up competing for many of the same voters.

In a Fox News interview on Monday, Paul said that although he and Cruz come from the same wing of the Republican Party, it also goes to winnability.

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