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Exclusive — Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Will Face ‘Increasingly Difficult Path’ To Democrat Nomination

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) expects former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a difficult path to her own party’s nomination, with Democratic voices like former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and others potentially running for the Democratic nomination against her.

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Poll: Rand Paul Does Best with Independents Against Hillary Clinton

The latest poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) fares the best among the presumed 2016 Republican presidential candidates against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with independent voters, and is one of the top three contenders overall against her.

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GOP Field Wide Open as Chris Christie Slips

As a new Monmouth University poll points out, while there’s “no single contender breaking from the pack,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie finds himself falling further behind, leading to a slew of bad headlines in his home state.

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Establishment Falsely Smears Rand Paul with Foreign Policy Attack Ads as He Launches Presidential Campaign

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Establishment Republicans are falsely smearing Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) with a million dollars worth of inaccurate attack ads on his foreign policy position as he announces his 2016 presidential campaign on Tuesday—something that shows off his viability as a serious contender not only for the Republican nomination but for the White House in a general election.

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Rand Paul To Kick Off Presidential Campaign With Five-State Tour

His campaign operation, which is pretty much already fully functional nationwide and has been for months as a campaign-in-waiting, is much more sophisticated than his father’s campaigns ever were. He has a technology team building a social media apparatus based out of Austin, Texas, and bare knuckles grassroots activists in place in key states—and pretty much every state for that matter—coast to coast already.

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United for Rand PAC Launches in Advance of Presidential Campaign Announcement

A political action committee (PAC) has been formed supporting Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) in advance of his anticipated 2016 presidential campaign announcement. The United for Rand PAC is being announced in Washington, D.C. Senator Paul is expected to announce his bid for the presidency on Tuesday, April 7, at the historic Galt hotel in Louisville, Kentucky and then take off on a multi-state campaign tour stops in New Hampshire on April 8; Charleston, S.C., on April 9, Iowa City, Iowa, on April 10; and Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11.with

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Ted Cruz To Iowa, South Carolina

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be visiting Iowa and South Carolina this week, for a series of receptions and town halls as he seeks to connect with Republican primary voters in these critical early primary states.

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‘Breitbart News Palm Sunday Special’ on SXM 125: Religious Freedom; Israel Sold Out; Hillary Intel Ops

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be hosting a special Palm Sunday program discussing all of the most important recent news with a special focus on the crisis in the Middle East. Bannon will be discussing the 2016 presidential campaign, religious liberty in Indiana, the Hillary Clinton email scandal, and much more.

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Cruz: GOP Leadership Blocked My Fundraising After ACA-Linked Shutdown

Per a Washington Post report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) claims that after the 2013 government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act both he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) “had their money spigot turned off by (GOP) leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members.

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Op-Ed: Texas’ Welfare Rolls Shrink, Rick Perry Deserves Praise

They say “everything is bigger in Texas,” but Texas’ welfare rolls are shrinking, and presidential hopeful and former Governor Rick Perry (R) deserves a lot of the credit.

When Perry first became governor of Texas in 2000, the number of people enrolled in the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was well over 300,000. Since then, the number has declined to below 80,000, and a new study says key policy changes help explain why.

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Hillary, Benghazi, and Those Troublesome E-mails

In late December, 2013 The New York Times whitewashed the Benghazi Islamist terrorist attack, claiming that based “on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”

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Poll: Slight Edge for Jeb Bush in New Hampshire

Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) has a slight lead in New Hampshire among potential Republican Presidential candidates, but nearly a quarter of respondents were undecided ten months before the first-in-the-nation primary will take place.

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Ted Cruz Reportedly Winning Over Some Rand Paul Supporters in Iowa

According to a New York Times report, Sen. Ted Cruz is making some critical inroads in Iowa, including gaining the support of “more than a dozen party leaders for his statewide campaign.” Some of that support is coming from the state’s libertarians, or Liberty movement, generally assumed to be aligned with Rand Paul.

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Cornyn Won’t Endorse Cruz in Presidential Primary

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) will not be endorsing Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in the Republican Presidential Primary. As Breitbart Texas reported, Cruz officially became 2016’s first Republican presidential candidate this week with a Tweet posted shortly after midnight Monday morning, followed by an announcement speech delivered at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Ted Cruz: ‘Imagine a President…’

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his official speech announcing he was running for President in 2016 on Monday at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. His speech focused on the “promise of America” and asked listeners to “imagine” events in the past — both from his own family’s history and the nation’s — and to imagine a bright future for America, restored to the great “shining city on a hill.”

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