United States Senator Randal Howard "Rand" Paul Images 2016 Presidential Campaign
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Randal Howard Paul
- January 7, 1963 (age 52), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- United States of America
- 5' 8" (1.73m)
- Kelley Ashby (m. 1990-present)
- Carol Wells, Ron Paul
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Dr. Randal "Rand" Paul is the Kentucky ophthalmologist who was elected to the from that state in 2010. He was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Texas, where his father, Dr. Ron Paul, was a politically active physician who served in the United States Congress and ran for the presidency three times. Rand Paul earned his undergraduate degree from Baylor University in 1984, and his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1988. He practiced ophthalmology in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1993 until his election to the Senate, all the while being an active anti-tax organizer in regional politics. Rand Paul became nationally known when he helped his father on the presidential campaign trail in 2008. A conservative Republican with libertarian goals, Rand seized the opportunity to run for the junior Senate seat vacated by Jim Bunning, and in 2010 he won, promising to never raise taxes and to push for "less government." He aligned himself with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, and the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama put Paul in the spotlight as a conservative alternative in matters of national debt and foreign policy. In April of 2015 he announced that he would be a candidate for president in 2016, saying he was “running for President of the United States of America because I want to defeat the Washington machine."
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Rand Paul was sworn into office as a senator in January of 2011, the same day as his father, Ron Paul, was re-sworn in as a congressman, making it the first time a father-son combination had been sworn into Congress on the same day... His birth name is Randal, spelled with one "l" only.
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April-29-2015
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April-29-2015
No edge for Rand Paul among young Americans, poll finds
Despite a presidential campaign pitched, in part, on a presumed appeal to younger voters, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) fares no better than other Republicans among those age 18 to 29, according to a new survey from Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
The survey, the latest in a twice-a-year project to gauge the views of the millennial generation, found no front-runner among the Republicans hoping to become the party’s nominee for president. Paul received the support of 8% of those who said they were potential Republican primary voters.
Women and Rand Paul
In Paul's view, human life begins at conception and should be granted
legal protection from that moment on, although he muddied his message
with a March 19 CNN interview where he said that as a physician he could
see where there
could be "thousands of exceptions" that could make abortion legal. An
aide later clarified that Paul meant that a singular exception to save
the life of the mother would likely cover thousands of medically
different individual cases.
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Paul went after Clinton’s time as Secretary of State between 2009 and 2013, criticizing several purchases and investments the department made during her tenure.
"Hillary Clinton’s State Department sent three comedians to India on the ‘Make Chai, Not War,’ " he quipped, garnering laughter from the audience.
The U.S. State Department pointed to a press conference in December 2011, when a spokeswoman answered questions about the comedy tour. The press conference drew some laughter from reporters, as noted in the transcript.
The department sent three Indian-American comedians, who were part of a show called "Make Chai, not War" on the seven-city tour through India as part of a "regular global cultural exchange program," former state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters during the 2011 daily press briefing.
While the title of the show was intentionally a joke, the purpose of the tour was more serious. The trip was intended to stem religious prejudice and encourage tolerance.
The trio of comics traveled India from Jan. 4 to Jan. 17, 2012. In addition to comedy shows, Nuland said, they held audience discussions focused on issues of religious tolerance, ran workshops and did interviews with the press.
The full tour cost about $100,000, and the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi sponsored it with a $88,000 grant, Nuland said.
"The reason we decided to support this tour is because among the things that they are known for is their talk about religious tolerance, about the importance of breaking down prejudices, and about the positive experiences they had growing up as Indian Americans in the United States," Nuland said at the press conference according to the transcript.
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