Paul stumps for Bevin in Somerset on eve of GOP caucus vote

“Many states actually collect some money on the day of the election just by passing a bag and asking people for a dollar or two”, Paul told Kentucky TV station WKYT this week.

Paul said he was “grateful for the Republican Party’s trust” in an e-mailed statement. Jesse Benton and John Tate, who are on leave from their roles on a super PAC backing Rand Paul, were released on their own recognizance after entering not-guilty pleas in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Rand Paul put his odds of winning the Republican presidential nomination at “one in five, one in six”. “Moving the primary to a caucus is a great help to my campaign”, Paul wrote, “and I appreciate the people of the Republican Party in Kentucky working on this with me”. Paul in my mind. The plan calls for Kentucky’s delegates to be split proportionally rather than “winner takes all”, and candidates only need to get 5 percent of the vote to qualify for delegates. “I think it’s the best thing for voters”. That’s a threshold much lower than other primary states.

The earlier voting also comes with a $500,000 price-tag, which could be an issue for Kentucky Republicans, which claims to have less than $170,000 in cash on hand, the AP reported.

The motion to adopt a caucus system required a vote of at least two-thirds of the committee vote to pass. It was approved with 76 percent of the vote, according to a video of the announcement posted online, on the condition that Paul transfer $250,000 to a state GOP account next month. While the candidate himself was in Haiti to perform pro bono eye surgeries, his campaign distributed a letter to central committee members about how he could foot the caucus bill. Friday, Paul suggested the party could pay for the caucus by collecting donations from voters at caucus locations. “I also pledge to you that I will raise or transfer in another $200,000 at a date agreed upon by my team and RPK”.