In a shocking turnaround, a Republican Senator endorsed Donald J. Trump…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) endorsed President Donald Trump in a Wednesday post on X, making the unorthodox announcement more than three months after Election Day 2024.
When making the announcement, Paul pointed to Trump’s cabinet picks and a recent Truth Social post in which the president blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (RELATED: Trump Likens Zelensky To A Dictator)
“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 select former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
While he stopped short of endorsing Trump ahead of the 2024 contest, he noted during an interview last year on Honestly with Bari Weiss that he would vote for Trump over then-Vice President Kamala Harris.
While the Kentucky Senator openly pledged his allegiance to Trump this week, Paul has publicly refused to support his choice for labor secretary.
Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a pro-union Republican, will go before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday for a confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of labor.
“Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work, but it would preempt state law on right to work,” he previously told reporters. “I think it’s not a good thing, and it’d be sort of hard for me since it’s a big issue for me to support her. So I won’t support her.”
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) is a piece of legislation designed to protect union workers and was introduced in Congress several years ago. It would effectively kill state-level laws that prohibit employers and unions from requiring workers to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. Republicans have traditionally supported such right-to-work laws, and many have opposed the PRO Act for that reason.
As of the night before the confirmation hearing, Paul was still planning to oppose Trump’s pick. “If she wanted to make a public statement saying that her support for the PRO Act was incorrect and she no longer does, then I’d think about her nomination,” he told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Right on Rand Paul about Trump and Lori Chavez DeRemer.
“Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work, but it would preempt state law on right to work,” he previously told reporters. “I think it’s not a good thing, and it’d be sort of hard for me since it’s a big issue for me to support her. So I won’t support her.”
I do support Tariffs. This was originally the governments only income.
Rand Paul is seldom wrong. He was not wrong this time only tardy. Support Rand Paul.
SENATOR RAND PAUL WILL CONTINUE TO BE A BLESSING FOR AMERICA
GOD BLESS OUR NATION, MICHAEL DONNELLY