Rand Paul, in 'corn tie' and cowboy boots, takes time for Iowans' questions
Jennifer Jacobs
5:22 p.m. CDT August 6, 2014
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul made a point to tell Iowans Wednesday morning that he was wearing his "corn tie" - a red tie patterned with yellow cobs.
An Iowa man asked him: "Do you have 50 ties?"
"By coincidence, I have a corn tie and by coincidence I have one in the shape of South Carolina. I don't know why," Paul answered, drawing a laugh from the audience at the Westside Conservative Club's breakfast meeting at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale.
Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has repeatedly said he won't decide until sometime in early 2015 whether he'll seek the White House in 2016. But all the signs point to yes, as Paul works hard to make deep connections in the states that serve as presidential testing grounds, including Iowa and South Carolina.
Unlike Tuesday's mad dash to events in four cities many miles apart, Paul's final day of his three-day Iowa tour was more leisurely. He was on stage at the breakfast club for a total of 47 minutes, speaking to Iowans and answering their questions on several topics, including Syria, immigration, how to attract voters to the GOP, marriage and birth control.
The corn tie was a gift from a doctor who came to Paul's Iowa City stop on Tuesday.
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