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05-14-2016, 04:04 PM
Rand Paul faces 2 challengers in Tuesday’s primary election
BY JACK BRAMMER
MAY 12, 2016
When Rand Paul began his first bid for the U.S. Senate in 2009, the Republican ran his fledgling campaign out of a room in his ophthalmologist office in Bowling Green.
Blessed with a well-known political name — his father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, was a three-time candidate for president — and an avalanche of support from the Tea Party, Paul captured almost 60 percent of the Republican primary vote in May 2010.
Six years later, Paul is known across the nation thanks to his failed bid for president and is expected to win easily in Tuesday’s GOP primary election for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Seven Democrats are battling to face the GOP nominee in the November general election.
Paul’s two challengers Tuesday — retired Navy veteran James R. Gould of Lexington and chemical engineer Stephen Howard Slaughter of Louisville — do not enjoy the high name recognition and campaign war chest of about $1.5 million that Paul claims.
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http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article77317797.html
BY JACK BRAMMER
MAY 12, 2016
When Rand Paul began his first bid for the U.S. Senate in 2009, the Republican ran his fledgling campaign out of a room in his ophthalmologist office in Bowling Green.
Blessed with a well-known political name — his father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, was a three-time candidate for president — and an avalanche of support from the Tea Party, Paul captured almost 60 percent of the Republican primary vote in May 2010.
Six years later, Paul is known across the nation thanks to his failed bid for president and is expected to win easily in Tuesday’s GOP primary election for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Seven Democrats are battling to face the GOP nominee in the November general election.
Paul’s two challengers Tuesday — retired Navy veteran James R. Gould of Lexington and chemical engineer Stephen Howard Slaughter of Louisville — do not enjoy the high name recognition and campaign war chest of about $1.5 million that Paul claims.
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read more:
http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article77317797.html