{"id":20647,"date":"2026-03-27T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:46:54","slug":"rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rand-paul-weighs-a-2028-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul weighs a 2028 presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is considering a bid for president in 2028, as Republicans jockey for the future of the GOP post-Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u201cCBS Sunday Morning\u201d interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DWZZnAeEYic\/\" target=\"_blank\">airing Sunday<\/a>, a reporter asked Paul about an article that implied he would be running for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thinking about it,\u201d Paul said. \u201cI would say fifty-fifty,\u201d adding that he would make a final decision after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Paul ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016 with a libertarianism-focused campaign but ultimately dropped out after a poor performance in the Iowa caucuses and a shortage of cash. He instead ran for reelection to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has had a complex relationship with his own party and with President Donald Trump, often finding himself the lone Republican on certain issues. More recently, he was the only Republican to support a joint resolution that would limit Trump\u2019s war powers in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>His father, former Rep. Ron Paul, also ran for president three times: first as a Libertarian in 1988, and twice as a Republican in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is considering a bid for president in 2028, as Republicans jockey for the future of the GOP post-Trump. In a \u201cCBS Sunday Morning\u201d interview airing Sunday, a reporter asked Paul about an article that implied he would be running for president. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking about it,\u201d Paul said. \u201cI would say fifty-fifty,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}