‘Not sure he’s open to changing.’ Why Rand Paul is holding out on Trump
BY DAVID CATANESE
AUGUST 23, 2023
Even as Donald Trump has maintained a mammoth polling lead over his Republican presidential primary opponents this summer, Rand Paul is keeping his 2024 options open.
The senator who tangled with Trump in 2016 before backing him said he’s refraining from endorsing a White House contender for now to watch and consider who is best suited to defeat President Joe Biden next fall. In an interview with McClatchy,
Paul expressed mixed feelings about the former president, who is declining to partake in the first GOP primary debate in Milwaukee Wednesday night.
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“For someone like me who thinks war should be the last resort, and we shouldn’t be bankrupting the country financing other wars and we sure as heck shouldn’t have troops everywhere, Trump actually is probably the least likely to have us involved in a foreign war of all the candidates,” Paul said. “I think Vivek [Ramaswamy has] been pretty good on some of the foreign war stuff too and [Ron] DeSantis not too bad.”
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Others like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence are far too hawkish for Paul to consider.
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Paul has met with Trump, DeSantis and Ramaswamy, suggesting that he’s open to eventually backing one of those three.
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