2016 Campaign Watch

The super PAC supporting Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, America’s Liberty PAC, reported bringing in $3.1 million during the second quarter of 2015. As National Journal reports, that number is lower than any other Republican with a super PAC:

Rand Paul’s Super PAC Raises Just $3.1 Million—Smallest Total Yet for 2016 Republican

The main super PAC backing Rand Paul’s presidential campaign raised only $3.1 million in the first half of 2015, new Federal Election Commission filings show—the smallest sum of the 10 Republican ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio shared a Washington Post headline yesterday related to their questioning of Secretary of State John Kerry over the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal. Within the last few days they’ve also shared the same general theme in two different articles, with both CNN and Politico asking why they haven’t been heard from much on the campaign trail in recent weeks.

CNN yesterday had this article:

Where is Rand Paul?

Rand Paul is doing something unusual: Blending into the ...

Ever since Fox News announced there would be only 10 candidates on the debate stage for the first Republican debate, contenders considered “on the bubble” have been trying to boost their national support in order to qualify. As described in this morning’s New York Times, Fox will rely on the five most recent national polls to determine who makes the cut:

To qualify for the debate each candidate must place in the top 10 “of an average of the five most ...