Rand will travel to Bowling Green today to ask the Republican Party of Kentucky's executive committee to endorse his plan to scuttle the party's presidential primary in favor of a caucus, where the winner is determined not by counting ballots but by counting voters who show up at meetings across the state at a particular time, reports the Military Times.
Rand wants a caucus because it will let him run for president and re-election to his Senate seat at the same time. Kentucky state law bans candidates from appearing on the ballot twice in the same election. By having a caucus on a different day, Rand can avoid that problem while he seeks the nomination.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senior senator from Kentucky and a major state powerbroker, is behind Rand's proposal.
Well why not? Why should state power and coercion determine how a private group assembled to exercise their First Amendment Rights of free speech and association choose a candidate they wish to offer on a general election ballot. Rand and his team are right on this whatever their motives.
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