Hoping it will be the decisive move to persuade state Republican leaders to adopt the new system, Paul says he has transferred $250,000 to the Republican Party of Kentucky to help pay for the caucuses.
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State GOP officials are scheduled to vote Saturday on rules for the proposed March 5 caucus.
The trip to Haiti and vote on the Kentucky caucuses also coincides with a period where Paul is beginning to truly make himself known to the American public.
But with Paul’s campaign losing its early momentum, some, such as WDRB columnist John David Dyche, are calling on Paul to make a choice now to run for either the Senate or the White House, but not both.
That cost will fall on Paul’s shoulders, and he does not say in the letter where the funds are coming from – his presidential campaign or U.S. Senate campaign. And the decision comes at at time when Paul is sinking in the polls, overshadowed by Republicans like Donald Trump and struggling to break through the presidential pack. “Before you do, I wanted you to hear straight from me about the plan to fund it”.
The Paul campaign said it would foot the bill. While Paul’s campaign is optimistic that the Kentucky GOP central committee will approve the change in plans, lingering concerns remain among state Republican officials about the cost of holding an expensive, time-intensive caucus with such short notice.
Paul, a tea party favorite, also pledged to raise or transfer another $200,000 at a date agreed on by his campaign team and RPK.
Republican presidential contender Rand Paul plans rallies in Seattle and Spokane next week – the latest in a string of 2016 candidate forays to the area. “They’re being pretty aggressive”. “Similar fees are charged in other states”, Paul told the central committee members in the letter. Since then, Paul has made a habit of standing up to Trump while exhibiting the libertarian tendencies that made Paul the “most interesting man in politics”.
Paul, the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, was once seen as a leading candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. “That’s gone from about 80 percent of the people I’ve talked to from about ten person of people who bring that up now”.
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Senator Paul’s down payment on the Kentucky caucus plan is merely another marker of the beginning of this race.
