Although Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) could always find areas of agreement with President Donald Trump, his libertarian streak apparently left him unable to deliver an official endorsement ahead of Election Day.
Now that Trump has been in office for a month and has a string of early second-term successes behind him, however, Paul is reconsidering his reticence to board the Trump Train earlier.
As Fox News reported:
“A few people may have noticed that I resisted an enthusiastic endorsement of Donald Trump during the election. But now, I’m amazed by the Trump cabinet (many of whom I would have picked). I love his message to the Ukrainian warmongers, and along with his DOGE initiative shows I was wrong to withhold my endorsement,” Paul declared in the tweet.
“So today, admittedly a little tardy, I give Donald Trump my enthusiastic endorsement! (Too little too late some will say, but, you know, it is sincere, there is that.),” he added. “Don’t expect this endorsement to be fawning. I still think tariffs are a terrible idea, but Dios Mio, what courage, what tenacity. Go @realDonaldTrump Go!”
The senator enthusiastically supported Trump’s choice to tap former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of