What Rand Paul Would Need to Do to Win – The New York Times

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Mr. Pauls rivals portray him as trying to be too many things to too many different people. And his efforts to sell himself as a new kind of Republican may be complicated by his views on foreign aid: He supported abolishing it altogether, but then, under pressure from the right, carved out an exception for Israel though Jewish conservatives remain wary of him. Mr. Paul has tried to explain away such inconsistencies by insisting that the news media or his critics were twisting his words, when in fact they were not. His occasional testiness, indeed, suggests a temperament that may not wear well under the hot glare of a long campaign. But his biggest problem could be Republican foreign-policy hawks, like John Bolton, the former United Nations ambassador, who are mobilizing to make sure that Mr. Paul, whom they see as dangerously isolationist, does not get very far.

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February 17th, 2019
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