Fresh off the national campaign trail, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is testing the influence of his unique political brand with a series of Congressional endorsements.
Many Kentucky political observers expect Paul to put his experience in the 2012 presidential race campaigning for his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), to use in 2016. Some even predict the tea-party-affiliated Senator will run for president.
But for now, at least, Paul is hoping his image as a libertarian outsider can boost his preferred candidates in House and Senate primaries across the country and help reshape the GOP on Capitol Hill.
“There’s so much inertia up here, we’d like to see people come up who’d actually try to change the system,” Paul said during a recent interview in his Senate office. “I think if we don’t shake off that inertia — you know, everything is mandatory spending, everything has a permanence up here. It takes someone who is somewhat fearless and aggressive to try and change the system.”
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