A Bad Week for Rand Paul

Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) “plan to get himself elected president relies on two long-shot bets coming true. So far, neither one seems to be going well,” the Washington Post reports.

“Paul’s first wager is that his ‘libertarian-ish’ ideas will manage to attract both Republicans mad about regulation and Democrats mad about government spying into an entirely new American voting bloc… The second bet is a bet on Paul himself — a wager that he’s an unusually talented politician persuasive enough to build a coalition out of groups that have never viewed themselves as allies.”

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