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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is heading to Virginia next week to help boost Republicans Ed Gillespie and Dave Brat, who are running this year for seats in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, respectively.

The public rally is scheduled to take place Oct. 15 at 1 p.m. at the Hanover Arts and Activities Center in Ashland, about 20 miles north of Richmond.

Mr. Paul, a likely 2016 presidential contender, has been busy making stops on behalf of candidates in early presidential primary and battleground states, and has trips scheduled for New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa and other states the rest of the month.

President Obama carried Virginia twice, but was the first Democratic presidential candidate to do so since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and the solidly purple state is poised to remain competitive for both sides. While there are libertarian candidates in these races in Virginia, neither has been able to gain much traction.

Mr. Gillespie is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner this year and has trailed by about 10 points in recent polls, though that gap is closer than what numbers had been showing over the summer. Libertarian Robert Sarvis has been polling in the single digits.

Mr. Brat, who toppled former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a June primary, is well-positioned to replace Mr. Cantor as the representative for the states 7th congressional district. Hes running against Democrat Jack Trammell and Libertarian James Carr.

The contours of the 7th district, which stretches from the Richmond suburbs north to the Shenandoah Valley, could have to change soon, however. A federal panel said Tuesday the state legislature must redraw its congressional district lines by April, ruling that race predominated lawmakers thinking when they drew a map packing African-American voters into the southeastern 3rd congressional district, which meanders from Richmond to Hampton Roads.

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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will rally Republicans at four stops in New Hampshire on Oct. 16, the same day former President Bill Clinton visits to speak to the Democrats' "Jefferson Jackson" dinner in Manchester.

Paul, who may run for president in 2016, was in New Hampshire last month as the keynote speaker at the state GOPs post-primary unity breakfast.

Pauls schedule has him starting the day at 9 a.m. with a get-out-the-vote rally at Republican Senate hopeful Scott Browns campaign headquarters in Manchester, just a short walk down Elm Street from where Clinton will speak that evening.

Paul then plans to be at a rally at 10:15 a.m. at the Republican State Committees office at 10 Water St. in Concord, followed by a noon pizza party with Plymouth State University College Republicans, and then a rally at the Republicans field office at 356 South Broadway in Salem.

Clinton is scheduled to speak to the New Hampshire Democratic Partys annual Jefferson Jackson celebration, which opens at 6 p.m. at the Radisson hotel in Manchester. While it is a major fund-raiser for Democrats, the event also serves to boost Democrats running for office. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to visit the state Nov. 2 for another rally.

Both parties have major national voices visiting the Granite State in the final three weeks to tout their candidates.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to return Oct. 15 to campaign for Brown in his race against U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH.

dtuohy@unionleader.com

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The most attention-grabbing conservatives in the emerging 2016 Republican presidential nomination race are two freshmen U.S. senators who had never held elective office before.

Though nearly equal in their fanfare, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas are romancing Republican and independent voters in radically different ways.

The outcome of their fierce competition could influence the direction of their party.

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Win or lose, both men have an opportunity to influence a new generation of conservatives in tactics, policy and coalition-building while readjusting the movements planks of fiscal restraint, free markets, strong security and social values.

Fashioning himself as an uncompromising truth-teller, Mr. Cruz wants a strict adherence to the federal spending restraints promised, but not practiced, by Republicans over most of the past 25 years. His admirers say they would trust him to advance the Bible as the one true word, the foundation of American politics and policy at home and abroad.

Mr. Paul advocates a more inclusive approach. He appeals to voters regardless of religion, political inclination or lifestyle and substantively pushes a foreign policy tipped away from unending intervention. He has positioned himself as a uniter capable of expanding the Republican Party beyond its core.

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Were an increasingly diverse nation, and I think we do need to reach out to other people that dont look like us, dont wear the same clothes, that arent exactly who we are, he told Iowa Republicans.

In a Senate floor speech last month, Mr. Paul once again laid out his principles for foreign policy, using the Islamic State crisis in the Middle East as a case study.

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