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After responding to an audience question about Medicare reform and calling for "tough love," Rand Paul laughed at the suggestion that he better "be ready to duck." Heeding a recent lesson from another potential 2016 presidential contender — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — Paul gripped the sides of the podium and moved his head and shoulders from side to side. "You notice I'm pretty agile," Paul said to laughs. "I'm looking for shoes."
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has noticed that some of his would-be rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination are using this week's Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting to portray him as a foreign policy isolationist.
A majority of Kentucky voters approves of the job their Democratic governor has done in Frankfort, but they're split closely on which political party they'll support when voting for a state House candidate this fall.
A majority of Kentucky voters approve of the job their Democratic governor has done in Frankfort, but they're split closely on which political party they'll support when voting for a state House candidate this fall.
Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes holds a slim 4-point advantage over U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a new Herald-Leader/WKYT Bluegrass Poll, with many voters saying they disapprove of McConnell but don't yet know Grimes nine months from Election Day.
More than half of Kentucky Republicans think U.S. Sen. Rand Paul should run for president in 2016, although they're divided about whether Paul should seek re-election to the Senate at the same time.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul discussed the possibility of cutting government benefits for unwed mothers who have multiple children during a Lexington luncheon Thursday, though the potential Republican candidate for president in 2016 didn't directly endorse such a policy.
Republicans moved a step closer Tuesday to their goal of retaking the Kentucky House for the first time since 1921. Republican Suzanne Miles defeated Democrat Kim Humphrey in Western Kentucky's 7th House District by a narrow 112-vote margin, according to unofficial returns. Humphrey said she will request a recanvass, but such efforts rarely change the outcome of an election.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul warned pundits Monday not to read too much into comments he made about his wife possibly vetoing a run for the White House in 2016, but he did say "it's not a slam dunk that I'm running."
Bill Clinton rarely says the word Kentucky and leaves it at that. Instead, the former president says "Kentucky ... I carried it twice." Clinton figures to be heavily involved in next year's U.S. Senate race in the Bluegrass, and as Virginia voters prepare to go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new governor, the former president's omnipresence in the other commonwealth offers a preview of what Kentuckians can expect.
In 15 stops around the vastly different regions of Kentucky, Paul was on a path toward the Republican nomination with a subtle and almost invisible strategy that has been a hallmark of his unlikely political career, odd traits considering the ear-splitting decibel level of the anti-government constituency that put the freshman senator on the map.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled in recent days he is increasingly focusing on his Democratic opponent in next year's Senate race and not so much on his Republican primary challenger. McConnell's decision to visibly enter negotiations to reopen the federal government indicated the senator saw more political value from taking a lead role in forging a compromise than risk of angering Tea Party Republicans.
Statesman, traitor, tap-dancer Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell was tagged with a number of labels Wednesday as his high-profile role in negotiations with Democrats presented a large target for opponents, even as the resulting deal appeared to end the government shutdown and avoid debt default.
When Steven Law ran Mitch McConnell's first reelection campaign in 1990, they raised more than $5 million. Last year, Law helped raise $117 million as head of the behemoth Republican groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which sought to defeat President Barack Obama and other Democrats.