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Paul Still Weighing Dual Run For White House and Senate

WKU PBS

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul says a state law preventing candidates from having their names appear more than once on the ballot won't deter him from staging dual campaigns for Senate re-election and president if he decides to make a bid for the White House in 2016.

Paul told the Associated Press he's still discussing with his family whether to enter the presidential race. But he insisted the Kentucky ballot law won't be an obstacle. The Republican with considerable Tea Party support kept open the option of mounting a court challenge seeking to have his name on the Kentucky ballot for both races.

Legislation aimed at letting Paul run for both offices passed the GOP-led state Senate this year in Frankfort, but died in the Democratic-run House.

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