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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) don't like each other. This isn't "news," as such; the two got into a feud in July 2013 over foreign policy and government spending and who was better, Springsteen or Rush (probably).

Now, a new front has been opened: How scared we should be about Ebola.

Paul has suggested that Ebola poses more of a threat than the White House is willing to admit. Last week, he spoke to Bloomberg News, questioning the risk level associated with being near an infected person.

"Im thinking like AIDS, you dont get AIDS at a cocktail party so my level of alarm goes down," Paul said. "And if I am treating somebody or looking at them around, Im thinking, oh no its like AIDS, I am not going to get it. But it really isnt like AIDS." (The Post's fact-checker gave Paul's claims three Pinocchios.)

In an interview with a radio station in Kentucky, Paul went further. "[T]his is an incredibly contagious disease," he said. "People in full gloves and gowns are getting it. So really [the White House] needs to be honest this is a very transmissible disease."

Enter his nemesis from Jersey. Speaking at Hackensack University Medical Center, Christie described talking to his young daughter about why she doesn't need to worry about the disease.

Christie described talking to his young daughter about why she doesn't need to worry about the disease while speaking at Hackensack University Medical Center on Wednesday. (Youtube/ GovChristie)

"I listened to her for a long time about what her concerns were for a few minutes. And then I said to her, listen its not going to happen," he said. "Youre not going to get it. Thats not the way this works. Its not like getting a cold which is what she was really worrying about."

He continued: "The hysteria thats going on in terms of the coverage, just the volume of coverage. Put aside the content. Just the volume of coverage is leading a lot of children to be concerned about this in a way that just isnt proportional to the risk."

Was Christie targeting Paul directly with his initial response? No, probably not. But after clipping it and transcribing it and putting it on Youtube -- as his team did -- it strikes us as unlikely that they weren't aware of the contrast that would be drawn. 2016 should be fun.

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The Fix: Chris Christie versus Rand Paul, part 19: Ebola

WILTON Saying that "the wind is at our back," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was optimistic here Wednesday about his party's chances in thefall election.

Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, was the headliner at an event for Republican Senate nominee Joni Ernst and state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann.

Winding up a day of campaigning in Iowa, Paul predicted victory on Nov. 4. "In two weeks we're going to boot 'em out, we're going to send 'em home and we're going to get America going again," he said.

Paul said the government has "gone crazy" with regulatory overreach. And he saidthe governmentcould improve the economy by trying to lure the more than $2 trillion in corporate profits from overseas back to the U.S. by lowering the tax on it to 5 percent. He said that would mean a return of $1 trillion, an influx of tax revenue and "real stimulus."

Currently, the corporate tax rate is 35 percent.

"If you want jobs not to go overseas, we have to be competitive," he said.

Paul is the latest national GOP figure to come to the state to help Ernst in her campaign against Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.

Both Paul and Ernst took turns poking fun at first lady Michelle Obama's mispronunciation of Braley's last name in her appearance here earlier this month. Ernst said the first lady's return to the state Tuesday to campaign again with Braley was a "mulligan tour."

In her remarks, Ernst criticized Braley on a range of issues, from the debt to foreign policy.

She called the Affordable Care Act the "largest tax increase in United States history."

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Paul rallies voters for Ernst, Kaufmann

WILTON, Iowa A potential Republican presidential contender and the GOP candidate for one of the hottest races in the U.S. Senate were among the special guests at a barbecue benefit in Wilton on Wednesday evening.

About 300 guests at the event, not including both local and national media, packed the Wilton Community Center to meet with and hear from U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, and state Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Red Oak.

Paul, who was there to support not only Ernst, but other local Republican candidates, is a first-term senator who is known for his libertarian political philosophy. Considered to be a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, he is the son of former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who himself ran for president twice as a Republican.

The event was the sixth annual fall barbecue hosted by the Kaufmann family of Wilton, a prominent family in state Republican politics. Iowa Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, who hosted the event, is running to secure a second term representing House District 73. Kaufmann said he'd met Paul on a campaign trip and found that they shared a common passion about the rights of property owners, one of the subjects of Paul's recent book, "Government Bullies."

"We just really hit it off," Kaufmann said.

Bobby Kaufmann noted that Paul is the fourth presidential contender to visit one of his family's barbecues during the past several years.

In his remarks, Paul argued against federal overreach regarding not just property rights, but in free speech and search and seizure issues, saying that the government has intruded too far on citizens' rights with electronic surveillance.

"This was what the [American] Revolution was fought over," Paul said.

Ernst, who spoke after Paul, is campaigning for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. A lieutenant colonel in the Iowa National Guard, she is facing U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, in a tight race for the seat. She spoke out against Braley, saying that he has been too willing to attempt to raise taxes and not do enough to reduce the national debt.

"I'm not willing to pass that along to my children," she said.

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