肯塔基州参议员称，他希望代表共和党”自由市场派”，作为特朗普-万斯民粹主义的替代选择
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2026年3月16日 美国东部时间上午11:44发布
兰德·保罗称”毫无疑问”对特朗普政府的信任已破裂
肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗在《60分钟》节目中批评特朗普政府对明尼苏达州边境巡逻人员枪杀亚历克斯·普雷蒂的反应。
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肯塔基州持自由意志主义倾向的共和党参议员兰德·保罗正为2028年白宫竞选留下广泛可能性。
“我们会在2026年后决定，”保罗在本周末发布的采访中表示。
保罗曾角逐2016年共和党总统提名，但在爱荷华州共和党党团会议中获得第五名后退选。他于当年晚些时候赢得参议院连任，并在2022年再次当选。
这位多年来一直是共和党内财政保守主义、公民自由和美国非干涉主义外交政策主要发声者的参议员，哀叹在唐纳德·特朗普总统主导的共和党中，拥护此类议程的共和党人越来越少。他承诺将努力让这一议程回归。
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“对我来说最重要的不一定是我或我的角色，而是要有倡导国际贸易有益且能让我们富裕的人。大公司并不坏，”保罗在接受《与查克·托德周日晚间》采访时表示。
保罗认为：”民粹主义者也想拆分大企业。他们想拆分谷歌（因其自由派倾向）或Meta（因自由派立场）。我不属于这类人，但这就是特朗普-万斯民粹主义派别。”
万斯强化2026年信息同时获得关键2028年支持
指向被视为共和党接替任期限制的特朗普的热门人选的特朗普和副总统J.D.万斯，保罗强调：”共和党需要有一个自由市场派别。我希望成为确保这一派别仍然存在的尝试的一部分。”
保罗一直是特朗普史无前例使用关税的公开批评者，去年曾投票反对总统大规模国内政策法案（因其增加了国家债务）。自去年夏天以来，他在采访中一直为2028年潜在竞选敞开大门。
“我认为在共和党中，需要有人代表国际贸易对美国有益，我们在贸易中会变得更富裕和繁荣，”他去年7月告诉肯塔基州《信使日报》。他补充称，”现在判断是否再次竞选白宫还为时过早”。
2028年接替特朗普：六位共和党人值得关注
在去年9月接受Spectrum新闻采访时，他谈到再次竞选总统时表示：”我们将随着时间推移观察会发生什么。”
保罗在去年12月接受美国广播公司”本周”节目采访时表示，他不认为万斯是特朗普的假设继承人及2028年共和党热门人选。
尽管保罗关于2028年白宫竞选的决定要到今年中期选举后才会做出，但这位参议员去年通过在爱荷华州、新罕布什尔州和南卡罗来纳州（共和党总统提名日程中三个关键早期投票州）的停留，引发了一些关注。
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Rand Paul leaves door open to 2028 White House run decision after 2026 | Fox News
Kentucky senator says he wants to represent ‘free-market wing’ of Republican Party as alternative to Trump-Vance populism
By Paul Steinhauser
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Published March 16, 2026 11:44am EDT
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Libertarian-minded Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is leaving the door wide open to a possible 2028 White House run.
“We’ll decide after 2026,” Paul said in an interview that posted this weekend.
Paul ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, but dropped out after a distant fifth-place finish in Iowa’s Republican caucuses. He won re-election later that year in the Senate, and was re-elected again in 2022.
The senator, who for years has been a leading voice inside the GOP for fiscal conservatism, civil liberties, and a non-interventionist foreign policy for America, has lamented the declining number of Republicans embracing such an agenda in a party dominated by President Donald Trump. And he’s pledged to try and bring such an agenda back.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talks to reporters before heading into the Senate Chamber to vote at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2026.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“The most important thing to me isn’t necessarily me or what my role is, but that there is someone who’s advocating that international trade is good and makes us rich. That big is not bad,” Paul said in an interview on “Sunday Night with Chuck Todd.“
Paul argued that “the populists also want to break up big business. They want to break up Google because they’re liberal or Meta because it’s liberal. I’m not one of those people, but that is sort of the Trump-Vance populist wing.”
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Pointing to Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, who is perceived as the GOP front-runner in the race to succeed the term-limited Trump, Paul emphasized that “there needs to be a free-market wing of the Republican Party. And I want to be part of trying to ensure that still exists.”
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, left, has been a critic of some of the policy pushed by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, right.(Left: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Right: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Paul, who is a vocal GOP critic of Trump’s unprecedented use of tariffs and who voted last year against the president’s massive domestic policy measure because it added to the national debt, has been leaving the door open to a potential 2028 run in interviews since last summer.
“I think in the Republican Party, though, there needs to be someone representing that international trade is good for America, that we get richer and more prosperous in the world we trade,” he told Kentucky’s Courier Journal newspaper last July. He added that it was “too early to tell” if he would run again for the White House.
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In a September interview with Spectrum News, he said, “We’ll see over time what happens,” regarding another presidential bid.
And Paul, in a December interview on ABC’s “This Week,” said he didn’t see Vance as the hypothetical heir to Trump and the 2028 GOP front-runner.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks in Manchesater, New Hampshire on March 15, 2015, during his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.(AP)
While any decision from Paul regarding a 2028 White House run won’t come until after this year’s midterm elections, the senator did generate some buzz last year by making stops in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, three crucial early voting states in the Republican Party’s presidential nominating calendar.
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“He’s keeping options open and looking at the landscape,” a strategist in the senator’s political orbit who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.
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