The Emergence of Rand Paul

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A few days after his win, Paul suggested that the forced integration of southern lunch counters by the 1964 Civil Rights Act amounted to an overreach by the federal government, a view that might make sense to a free-market purist like himself, but few others. The slip gave Rand's critics much fodder for attack and even led some Republicans to wonder if the candidate was ready for politics on the national level.

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