article_snippet.sent: Rand Paul's timing couldn't be better, and Rand Paul's timing couldn't be worse.
article_snippet.sent: the senator is poised to enter the 2016 presidential contest on Tuesday, at a moment when only Sen. Ted Cruz, the tea party darling, is already in the race and consuming precious news-cycle oxygen.
article_snippet.sent: Paul will launch Paul campaign Tuesday morning in Louisville, Kentucky with the populist slogan 'Defeat the Washington machine.
article_snippet.sent: Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul will announce Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul candidacy for president on April 7 in Louisville .
article_snippet.sent: The only other big fish to announce the longer a federal judge or elected official candidacy so far is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, an evangelical Christian whose views couldn't be much more different from Paul's .
article_snippet.sent: Paul would be the first major-party candidate with roots in Kentucky to run for president since Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a one-room log cabin in the Bluegrass State.
article_snippet.sent: Paul teased Paul Tuesday announcement over the weekend with a 3-minute YouTube video reprising portions of Paul February speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C. 'To fix Washington, we can't have business as usual,' Paul says in one clip. '
article_snippet.sent: One who works for you and, above all, it's time for a new president,' OUT OF THE GATE ALREADY: Paul has been making campaign-style stops in the eary primary state of New Hampshire, like this March 21 appearance in the Granite State town of Rochester .
article_snippet.sent: The video ends as Paul CPAC speech did, with boisterous shouts of 'President Paul!
article_snippet.sent: Paul next big test will be winning support from high-dollar donors.
article_snippet.sent: And Paul campaign-in-waiting has held his campaign-in-waiting fire on Obama's triumphant proclamations that a nuclear deal with Tehran is all but in the bag.
highlights_snippet.sent: Paul slogan will underscore a Tuesday presidential campaign launch .
  