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LOUISVILLE, KY - NOVEMBER 3: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks at an election rally for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at Bowman Field November 3, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky. Aaron P. Bernstein, Getty Images

Senator Rand Paul has hired Chip Englander as his campaign manager, CBS News' Gilad Thaler confirmed Tuesday evening, after the Washington Post first reported the move.

Paul spokeswoman Eleanor May said in an email, "Chip has joined Team Rand and will serve as the campaign manager" if Paul chooses to run in 2016. The announcement came just before the senator's trip to New Hampshire Wednesday, where Paul has a schedule packed with events like a diner meeting with legislative leaders, a Second Amendment supporter event, a drop-by at the Londonderry Fish & Game Club, and other meetings with key figures in New Hampshire presidential politics.

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Englander just finished a job as campaign manager, having run newly-elected Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner's campaign, and he is a senior adviser to Rauner's transition committee.

This is Paul's second senior-level hire this week. Paul hired Republican strategist Chris LaCivita as a senior adviser, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. LaCivita, the Journal notes, has worked with both GOP establishment and tea party candidates and can help Paul navigate between the two interests.

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Jeb Bush is a Big Government Republican. Mitt Romney had his chance. And Marco Rubios recent jabs on foreign policy are silly and childish.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is back in insurgent mode, lobbing bombs at his potential Republican presidential rivals and looking to take back a political spotlight that Bush and Romney have been hogging lately. Paul is also heading to New Hampshire and Nevada this week, hoping to strike a fire with voters who want a new voice to carry the GOPs message to the White House.

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You need a candidate who reaches out to new constituencies and is able to bring new people into the party, Paul said. Because if we do the same old, same old candidates, we are going to get the same old result.

While other Republican House and Senate members attend this weeks rare GOP joint congressional summit in Pennsylvania, Paul will be in New Hampshire to meet with mothers and activists railing against Common Core, the education program reviled by the tea party right. An added advantage: The issue gives him a chance to further needle Bush, a prominent Common Core supporter who would probably be a front-runner for the presidential nomination.

(Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul taps Chip Englander as likely 2016 campaign manager)

In an interview Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican did just that.

Hes been a proponent of Common Core, a proponent probably of a much bigger government a Big Government Republican who believes more things should be occurring in Washington rather than decentralization, Paul said of the former Florida governor. He added that his rivals brother and father, former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, also backed education policies aimed at more Washington control.

Jeb Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell responded: Gov. Bush would put his successful conservative governing record up against anyones.

Pauls assessment of Romney is only slightly less critical.

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Rand Paul looks to steal 2016 spotlight

Last Updated Jan 14, 2015 3:58 PM EST

Sure, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul may be welcoming Mitt Romney back into the fray for 2016 -- "the more, the merrier," he has said. And yes, Paul believes the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP nominee would have been a better president than Barack Obama.

But in 2016, the Kentucky senator--who is weighing a run himself--said in an interview Wednesday, "When we choose who we are going to choose among the more the merrier, I think there is an argument to be made ...Governor Romney a month ago said, 'I've had my chance, it's time for somebody fresh and new.' And I kind of still tend to agree with what Governor Romney said."

I spoke with Paul in Manchester, New Hampshire, the second state that will vote in the 2016 nominating contests, where he is doing a series of events to get to know voters there.

The upshot for Paul is that Romney "couldn't attract enough people" to win the GOP nomination. Although he campaigned for Romney in 2012, Paul said the GOP needs to find a path to victory.

A winning constituency, he said, "has to be bigger and more diverse than we've ever had or we will not win or cannot win... there will be an argument for winnability, that we need to try something new."

Asked when he would announce his own plans for 2016, Paul said, "It's a maybe--and it's March or April."

Still, that timeline hasn't precluded Paul from building a campaign network, which he's been doing for months. He added two senior positions this week--a campaign manager for a potential 2016 campaign, Chip Englander, and a senior adviser, Chris LaCivita.

Paul recognizes that he's walking into a crowded field of contenders, but he says that he has a position that is "unique" in his party. He's concerned about the size of the debt and calls it, "the number one threat to our national security." He believes in what he calls a "more reasonable foreign policy," which he characterized as one that's "very judicious," in which "war's the last resort, and...we have to be worried about and wary of unintended consequences of getting involved in war that actually makes us less safe."

He was critical of many of his counterparts in Washington--both Democrat and Republican--for being too eager to put more American troops on the ground around the world. That was particularly true in the case of the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, which Paul called "Hillary's war" because of her role in shaping the American response.

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Published January 14, 2015

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has hired a campaign manager in preparation for a possible White House bid in 2016, according to a published report.

The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Paul had announced the hiring of Chip Englander, who most recently oversaw Bruce Rauner's successful campaign for Illinois governor. Citing people familiar with the hire, the paper reported that Englander would officially hold the title of senior adviser at Paul's political action committee. However, those people also said that the 33-year-old Englander had been assured that he will take over operation of the campaign once Paul talks the matter out with his family.

"America has intractable problems and its going to take a transformational leader to fix them," Englander told the Post. "Senator Paul is going to be the bold, transformational figure in this race.

The reported hire comes as Paul's potential rivals for the Republican nomination begin jostling for position. The Post reported Monday that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP's nominee in 2012, had begun reaching out to former advisers, donors, and allies about the possibility of a third presidential bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who filed paperwork to form a political action committee last week, will travel to California later this week for fundraising events.

A memo sent to Paul donors and allies touted Englander as a man who had helped elect a Republican governor in President Barack Obama's home state, which the president "won by 25 [percentage points in the 2008 election]". The memo also said Englander "drew in new types of voters to win the state, including winning a majority of moderates, unprecedented for a Republican." Rauner defeated incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn, who was running for a second term.

Paul is scheduled to visit two states with early primary contests later this week. On Wednesday, he will travel to New Hampshire, with a stay in Nevada planned for Friday and Saturday.

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TIME Politics 2016 Election Sen. Rand Paul speaks with the news media after delivering a speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Dec. 6, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. Bill PuglianoGetty Images

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is not pulling his punches over former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has indicated to donors and allies he is considering another bid for the White House in 2016.

In an interview with radio host John Gibson on Fox News Radio, the libertarian lawmaker called the former Massachusetts governor yesterdays news, adding he doesnt believe theres room for a third act in politics.

Well if he runs to the right of Jeb Bush he will still be to the left of the rest of the party, so it may be a difficult spot to occupy, Paul told Gibson Tuesday, in a one-two punch in reference to reports Romney would seek to cast himself as the conservative alternative to the former Florida governor. Look I like Gov. Romney. I like him personally, I think hes a good person, I think hes a great businessman. But, you know, thats yesterdays news. Hes tried twice. I dont really think that there is a third time out there.

Paul, who has all-but-officially declared a presidential campaign, said the Republican Party needs to focus on growing its base of supporters, an area where Romney did not excel in 2012.

I think he did a lot of right, Paul continued. But in the end youve got to have a bigger constituency, youve got to get new people, youve got to get new people to win. And I think its just time that probably the party is going to be looking for someone fresh and new.

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