Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won reelection in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race Tuesday night over Democrat challenger Charles Booker.
The incumbent senator was the favorite to win reelection as polls and election forecast models showed him winning comfortably. FiveThirtyEight gave the incumbent Senator an over 99 to 100 chance of victory in the race, whilePaul won his first Senate victory in 2010 during the first Tea Party wave, beating then-Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway by 11 points. His second victory came in 2016 when he beat then-Lexington Mayor Jim Gray by 15 points.
The non-interventionist senator and son of former presidential candidate and Rep. Ron Paul ran in the 2016 Republican presidential primary race but suspended his campaign after finishing fifth in Iowa Caucus. During Paul’s second term, he was violently assaulted by his neighbor in 2017, leaving him with five broken ribs and three displaced fractures. He eventually had to have part of his lung removed in 2019.
He was also the victim of a heated confrontation with leftist protesters after leaving former President Donald Trump’s keynote address at the RNC National Convention in Washington, DC, in 2020.NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Notably, in 2021, the senator accused Fauci of perjury over his funding of gain of function research at the Chinese Communist Wuhan lab.
“Absolutely, he lied to the American people. There was gain of function research going on with Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute,” PaulPaul has also been vocal in his opposition to the U.S. Congress giving billions of dollars of aid to Ukraine.
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