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(14,923 posts) Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:16 PM Mar 2015

IRAN PAUL To Announce Presidential Bid April 7

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul will announce he is running for president during a rally on April 7 at the Galt House in Louisville. Sources close to Paul, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Paul's campaign apparatus has begun making phone calls to supporters in Kentucky and around the country to invite them to the event. One source said that while Paul could change his mind and announce on that day that he would not seek the Republican nomination, "you could knock me over with a feather if that's what he does."

"That is the day of his announcement," the source said. Paul, who has traveled numerous times to early caucus and primary states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, has said that he plans to make his decision next month and that he would make the announcement in Louisville. "That puts two and two together for us," said Jefferson County Republican Party Chairman Nate Haney, who said he assumes Paul will talk about his presidential aspirations that day."I have gotten a phone call on it and I was told that there was going to be some type of announcement or event," he said. "I have my suspicions that he's going to announce his run for president."

Doug Stafford, who heads up RANDPAC, Paul's political action committee, didn't immediately return an email or a phone call to his cell phone seeking comment. The exact time of the event is in flux, one source said. "He's on an awfully tight schedule because he's going to do a nationwide fly-around to early primary states." Another source said that Paul would make stops over the next five days in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada — four states that will choose their presidential nominees by the end of February.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2015/03/17/rand-paul-announce-presidential-bid-april/24926973/

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