Rand Paul’s convinced election was stolen — but not sure he’ll do anything about it
The Kentucky senator is now comparing Donald Trump’s loss to LBJ’s 1948 Senate race.
By Josh Israel - December 18, 2020The Kentucky senator is now comparing Donald Trump’s loss to LBJ’s 1948 Senate race.
By Josh Israel - December 18, 2020The Senate is moving ahead with President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet picks, despite a handful of Republicans digging in their heels.
By Amy Lieu - December 17, 2020‘I’m very, very concerned that if you solicit votes from typically nonvoters, that you will affect and change the outcome.’
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2020Republicans have convinced their supporters that massive voter fraud is real by lying about it for weeks.
By Emily Singer - December 16, 2020GOP politicians claim top infectious diseases specialist Anthony Fauci said schools should have stayed open during the pandemic. He never said that.
By Donna Provencher - December 01, 2020The Department of Justice said they don’t have enough evidence.
By Oliver Willis - November 25, 2020Lawyers for Detroit said objections in GOP affidavits were ‘grounded in an extraordinary failure to understand how elections function.’
By Donna Provencher - November 19, 2020Dr. Anthony Fauci countered Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s misinformation about ‘herd immunity’ with facts at a Senate committee hearing.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 23, 2020Video evidence shows that Rand Paul was slightly jostled by a police officer who stumbled into him.
By Oliver Willis - August 28, 2020A video of the incident shows no attack on the senator.
By Associated Press - August 28, 2020Unemployment is above 10% in the United States, but Rand Paul is arguing for more job cuts.
By Emily Singer - August 21, 2020It’s the same paradoxical attack they have used against Joe Biden.
By Josh Israel - August 12, 2020Internal tensions within the House Republican Conference bubbled into the open on Tuesday.
By Emily Singer - July 21, 2020The Republican senator wants more positivity from health officials after more than126,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and more than 2.6 million have been infected.
By Oliver Willis - June 30, 2020Trump’s latest attacks on Obama are false and a transparent ploy to try to hurt Joe Biden’s presidential bid.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2020Paul said there’s a ‘silver lining’ when it comes to the major virus outbreaks at meat plants across the country.
By Emily Singer - May 12, 2020Americans have been told not to travel abroad, go to gyms, or shake hands. But those are all things some Republican officials are doing.
By Associated Press - March 26, 2020Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has voted against both congressional relief packages related to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 23, 2020The Kentucky senator is upset about the cost of the coronavirus rescue package currently under consideration.
By Oliver Willis - March 18, 2020Some Republicans, including Paul, have been trying repeatedly to circulate a name for the whistleblower whose complaint led to Trump’s impeachment.
By Oliver Willis - February 04, 2020There does not appear to be four Republican senators who will vote to allow witnesses, a break from every other impeachment trial in American history.
By Associated Press - January 31, 2020Paul submitted a question with the alleged name of the whistleblower, even though Justice Roberts warned senators he would not read any questions that included the name.
By Emily Singer - January 30, 2020Chief Justice John Roberts blocked Sen. Rand Paul from having the alleged whistleblower’s name read during Trump’s impeachment trial this week.
By Emily Singer - January 30, 2020Republicans are turning on the former national security adviser, who accused Trump of corruption in a forthcoming book that’s upending the impeachment trial.
By Associated Press - January 29, 2020The GAO is responsible for determining whether administration officials have broken the law.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 16, 2020The Kentucky Republican said he would force votes to destroy his colleagues’ reelection chances.
By Josh Israel - January 16, 2020Four Republican senators are joining Democrats to demand Congress be involved in war-making decisions.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 14, 2020Graham had no issue with Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) demand that the media expose the whistleblower’s identity.
By Emily Singer - November 05, 2019The Kentucky senator wants the media to identify the whistleblower who flagged Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 05, 2019The Kentucky Republican offered to buy Rep. Ilhan Omar a plane ticket to Somalia earlier this year after Trump told the congresswoman to ‘go back’ to her home country.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2019