Drake University’s student group advocating for Paul, Students for Rand, showed their support at the event with signs and t-shirts, and the group’s President, Callista Coulter introduced Paul to the group, asking “Who’s ready to hear from the next President of the United States?” Even though there were a few gaps in the Paul live stream, the whole thing did come across pretty unfiltered. Jessica Reilly/AP Paul is in the middle of live-streaming his three-day Iowa campaign swing on Periscope. “I’ve been saying, I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to do this”.
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Yesterday, Rand Paul livestreamed parts of his day on the campaign trail.
The headline on the post told Paul, “It Is Time to Take Your Campaign Out Back and Shoot It”. “I wouldn’t waste two years of my life trying to put this message out if I didn’t plan to be there when they voted”.
Paul’s livestream appeared to be a direct feed from what I can only guess was the camera on a 2004 Motorola Razr, and it hardly lasted the entire day.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Thursday that he’s in the 2016 presidential race for the long haul, downplaying reports on his third-quarter fundraising total of $2.5 million.
“They also tell me, because I’m just doing what I’m told, riding around Iowa looking at cornfields and answering silly questions, that I’m supposed to answer the top Googled tweets about me”, Paul said. “You’ll see Senator Paul speaking, traveling, and meeting countless students across Iowa”. He is also one of the most popular Republican candidates among tech-savvy and politically consequential millennials. “Very Libertarian – I love it”.
During the Democratic debate Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley also criticized Clinton for her call for a no-fly zone in Syria.
In a memo issued to the press, senior adviser Doug Stafford and campaign manager Chip Englander argued that Paul’s political operation, ground game, and the coming debates left him well-positioned heading into the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. It’s not transparency – there’s a much higher bar for that in politics – but getting to see a real person inside their carapace of carefully managed branding is refreshing.
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Paul finishes his tour of Iowa on Wednesday afternoon.
