Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’
*And now there are two. There will be more GOP presidential contenders by the end of the month. Sen. Marco Rubio is set to announce his candidacy next week. VL
By Ashley Killough, CNN
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)For Rand Paul, it’s all led to this moment.
Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism — dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined with an anti-interventionist foreign policy and general support for family values — that he bets will create a coalition of younger voters and traditional Republicans to usher him into the White House.
The test of that theory begins Tuesday when the Kentucky senator makes official what has been clear for years: He’s running for president.
“I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,” Paul said on his new website.
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