Rand Paul Steals Ted Cruz’s Fire
Written by Leonora Cravotta
Rand Paul stole the fire from fellow GOP candidate Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential announcement earlier this week. Senator Cruz is the first GOP candidate to formally his run for the 2016 GOP ticket. In a moment which should have belonged to the Texas Senator, he found himself sharing the limelight with his Kentucky rival. Paul jumped into the Cruz announcement by questioning his electability. During an interview with Fox’s Megyn Kelly Paul criticized Cruz for having limited appeal beyond the conservative base. “It isn't just about rousing a base. It's about exciting the base by being for the principles of liberty, but it's then taking those principles of liberty — not diluting them — and taking them to new people and bringing them into the party. That's the way you win general elections." Paul also praised his supporters who showed up in Paul tee-shirts at Cruz’s speech at Liberty University. The Cruz campaign tried to dismiss Paul’s comments as a deliberate distraction to draw attention away from the Cruz announcement.
