{"id":303356,"date":"2010-02-10T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:17:37","slug":"rand-paul-%e2%80%93-a-tea-party-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303356","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul \u2013 A Tea Party Candidate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, KY- Riding the wave of the Tea Party movement, political outsider and son of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), Rand Paul is now making a run for U.S. Senate. \u00a0With the current senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) retiring this fall, Rand Paul has gained momentum with an endorsement by Sarah Palin and recent Rasmussen polls showing a favorable impression with voters.<\/p>\n<p>Although he has never held public office and is a practicing physician, he seems to be holding up in a tough campaign with well-known KY Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Fox News Channel&#8217;s Steve Brown sat down with Rand Paul this week to discuss his campaign. Watch the interview here<\/p>\n<div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=on&#038;width=375&#038;height=212&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=72130249ADA58429A3D634A4A7FD30AD&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D11010&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3D72130249ADA58429A3D634A4A7FD30AD%7Cts%3D1265899946%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=d53dd38d1ca411d42ede9e012bba4713\"><\/script><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, KY- Riding the wave of the Tea Party movement, political outsider and son of Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), Rand Paul is now making a run for U.S. Senate. \u00a0With the current senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) retiring this fall, Rand Paul has gained momentum with an endorsement by Sarah Palin and recent Rasmussen polls showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}