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Watch live: Rand Paul announces 2016 presidential campaign

By Andrew Prokop
Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington, DC, bureau.

This morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will announce that he is running for president, at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky. The speech is due to start in a few minutes. You can watch it above, and learn more about Paul below:

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