Republican Senator Rand Paul Floats 2028 Presidential Run

As the 2028 presidential draw nearer we will see more of this.

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has floated the idea of running in the 2028 Presidential election.

In a recent interview, Paul was asked if he would run in the presidential election, to which he responded he would decide after this year.

2028 PREVIEW: Kentucky Republican Rand Paul signals possible White House bid, vowing to champion free trade and fiscal conservatism against Trump's tariff agenda. https://t.co/XOFKSBanfI

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Fox News had more details to share on Paul’s potential presidential run:

Libertarian-minded Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is leaving the door wide open to a possible 2028 White House run.

“We’ll decide after 2026,” Paul said in an interview that posted this weekend.

Paul ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, but dropped out after a distant fifth-place finish in Iowa’s Republican caucuses. He won re-election later that year in the Senate, and was re-elected again in 2022.

The senator, who for years has been a leading voice inside the GOP for fiscal conservatism, civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy for America, has lamented the declining number of Republicans embracing such an agenda in a party dominated by President Donald Trump. And he’s pledged to try and bring such an agenda back.

“The most important thing to me isn’t necessarily me or what my role is, but that there is someone who’s advocating that international trade is good and makes us rich. That big is not bad,” Paul said in an interview on “Sunday Night with Chuck Todd.”

Paul argued that “the populists also want to break up big business. They want to break up Google because they’re liberal or Meta because it’s liberal. I’m not one of those people, but that is sort of the Trump-Vance populist wing.”

So, what other Republicans could potentially run?

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Mediaite reported Tucker Carlson recently joked that he may enter the race:

Tucker Carlson joined Piers Morgan on Friday to discuss the latest round of infighting on the right over President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and support for Israel.

Carlson took aim during the conversation at two of his favorite foils in recent years, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ben Shapiro, who have accused Carlson of promoting anti-Semitism and anti-American rhetoric in the service of foreign adversaries like Qatar.

“As for Ted Cruz, he says he’s running against me for president. I almost want to run for president just to debate Ted Cruz, because I think it would go about the way it went last time, and for my part, I deeply enjoyed it, which is why I’ve never tweeted about it, because I just keep that little spark of joy inside me for rainy days. And I think about that conversation and smile,” Carlson told Morgan during the program.

Take a look:

TUCKER: "I almost want to run for President, just to debate Ted Cruz.”

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