And he's off: Rand Paul preps for April announcement

[tsai3904]

And he's off: Rand Paul preps for April announcement

BY Sam Youngman

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul isn't waiting for the Kentucky Derby to shoot out of the starting gate.

Next month — the day after the NCAA championship game — Paul plans to announce that he is running for president in front of hundreds of supporters at Louisville's Galt House.

While Paul's team stressed that the senator might still decide against running for president, they confirmed the planned April 7 launch date, which was originally reported by The New York Times, and said invitations to the event have already been sent to supporters and Republican officials.

The event will prominently feature Kentucky in an effort to capture the historic nature of the announcement for the state. That also dovetails with the desire of Paul's budding campaign team to build a sense of state pride around his candidacy, building a foundation for the senator's presidential campaign and keeping his approval numbers aloft as he tries to run for re-election to his Senate seat simultaneously in 2016.

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More:
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/17/3752245_and-hes-off-rand-paul-preps-for.html

 

[Matt Collins]

Rand announcement on April 7 - Louisville, KY!

As reported on Kentucky.com --

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul isn't waiting for the Kentucky Derby to shoot out of the starting gate.

Next month — the day after the NCAA championship game — Paul plans to announce that he is running for president in front of hundreds of supporters at Louisville's Galt House.

While Paul's team stressed that the senator might still decide against running for president, they confirmed the planned April 7 launch date, which was originally reported by The New York Times, and said invitations to the event have already been sent to supporters and Republican officials.

The event will prominently feature Kentucky in an effort to capture the historic nature of the announcement for the state. That also dovetails with the desire of Paul's budding campaign team to build a sense of state pride around his candidacy, building a foundation for the senator's presidential campaign and keeping his approval numbers aloft as he tries to run for re-election to his Senate seat simultaneously in 2016.

Following the announcement, Paul will leave Louisville to embark on a nearly week-long trip to the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, with fundraising stops and grassroots rallies in a handful of other states along the way. Paul has traveled extensively to the early states already, including a return trip to New Hampshire this weekend.

As the Times and others have noted, Paul's early-April announcement coincides with the next U.S. Senate recess and allows the senator to enter the race at the start of a fundraising cycle, giving him a full quarter of raising money before he files his first campaign finance report.

SOURCE:
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/03/17/3752245_and-hes-off-rand-paul-preps-for.html?rh=1

 

[dannno]

Paul plans to announce that he is running for president in front of hundreds of supporters at Louisville's Galt House.

Hopefully more.

 

[Sola_Fide]

I'll be there. Am I going to see anyone else?

 

[idiom]

Hopefully more.

This is the sort of thing that would be epic as stadium event.

 

[Matt Collins]

I'll be there in person.

 

[JK/SEA]

I'll be there in person.

announcing that could hurt Rands chances.....

 

[NoOneButPaul]

I dont think there's any doubt he'll do well in Iowa, NH, and Nevada. I think the bigger issue here is how he's going to deal with the South especially if Graham and Bush are there cleaning up in SC and FLA.

 

[orenbus]

IMO, the race will depend on Iowa, NH and whether he can break 20% nationally.

 

[JK/SEA]

he's going to need an endorsement from Mitt and McWar to get anywhere...

 

[Inkblots]

he's going to need an endorsement from Mitt and McWar to get anywhere...

The funny thing is, a Romney endorsement would almost be possible. Romney's basically a technocrat without a strong foreign policy of his own, so Rand's "conservative realism" probably isn't a negative with him like it is for a lot of party insiders, and Rand and Ron both dealt with him fairly in 2012.

Sadly, Romney is very much a Wall Street Republican, and he would never endorse Rand because he's the face of the Audit the Fed movement.

 

[William Tell]

Go Rand!

 

[Sola_Fide]

I'll be there in person.

I'll say hi when I see you there Matt. Maybe I could even get a picture with the collins.

 

[CaptUSA]

"Galt" house? You know the media is going to run with that!

 

[Vanguard101]

 

[PatriotOne]

Flak jacket - check
Bulletproof vest - check
Paypal account - check
Witty banter - check
Brick wall to beat head against - check

I'm ready. Bring it Rand.

 

[Gage]

Amazing!

 

[philipped]

TURN UP 4 RAND 2016!

 

[Keith and stuff]

I dont think there's any doubt he'll do well in Iowa, NH, and Nevada. I think the bigger issue here is how he's going to deal with the South especially if Graham and Bush are there cleaning up in SC and FLA.

Hopefully he can beat most of the candidates not from those states, in those states. If Graham gets 30% in SC, hopefully a lot of those voters were RINOs that would have voted for Bush.

 

[mz10]

Hopefully he can beat most of the candidates not from those states, in those states. If Graham gets 30% in SC, hopefully a lot of those voters were RINOs that would have voted for Bush.

Graham getting 30% in SC would be just fine. He's not a serious national candidate. That would be no different than Gingrich winning SC in 2012 - completely irrelevant.