Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign

The Kentucky Republican ended his presidential campaign Wednesday after a fifth place finish in the Iowa caucuses.

Kentucky libertarian Rand Paul announced Wednesday that he’s suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and will refocus his efforts on hanging on to his Senate seat.

“[One] reason why Rand Paul wasn’t doing well was Ted Cruz had made inroads [into the libertarian group]”, Scala said.

Kentucky’s own presidential candidate, Sen.

During his campaign, Rand Paul tried to persuade the supporters of his father, but his attempt didn’t succeeded, despite his popularity among libertarians, who considered him too mainstream.

His withdrawal leaves 10 Republican candidates in the 2016 White House race.

Warren County Republican Party Chairman Scott Lasley reacts to Rand Paul’s decision to end his presidential campaign. Paul supported McConnell in his 2014 re-election and McConnell returned the favour for Paul’s White House bid. The Iowa caucuses kick off the presidential selection process tomorrow.

The next voting is set for Tuesday, a party primary in the northeastern state of New Hampshire. The ballots have already been printed, so Kentuckians can still vote for Paul March 5. Brennan had been President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser, and Paul opposed the Obama administration’s use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists.

But soon after announcing his candidacy, Paul began a series of stumbles that turned into displays of his thin-skinned personality – and raised questions about his medical credibility.

After the caucuses, Cruz has also won the backing of state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock, who had been publicly neutral in the race. Republicans, in the main, wanted a muscular foreign policy created to root out and kill terrorists overseas so that they couldn’t kill us here. That has not happened yet, with just 52 ads airing in Lexington and Bowling Green through January, according to an analysis of data by the Center for Public Integrity. His decision to leave the 2016 race on Wednesday was a bow to the inevitable: The party had evolved and slipped away from him.

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