Rand Paul
Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas.
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“No one has been hospitalized for” the omicron variant of COVID-19.
“Sorry Dr Fauci and other fearmongers, new study shows vaccines and naturally acquired immunity DO effectively neutralize COVID variants.”
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“Trump margin of ‘defeat’ in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud?”
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Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
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$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."
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President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."
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"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
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"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're…
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"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy…
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"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."