Republican White House Hopefuls Start With Eye on Clinton

By Jonathan Allen Jul 14, 2014 12:00 AM ET

July 14 (Bloomberg) –- Bloomberg’s Jonathan Allen discusses Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and the GOP establishment’s attempts to stop him. He speaks on “Market Makers.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Republican jockeying in the 2016 U.S. presidential primary is becoming a contest over who will become the alternative to the Tea Party’s candidate.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is the favorite of the small-government movement, and Republican rivals are starting to gang up on him to argue that he could dim the party’s chances against a Democratic Party unified behind Hillary Clinton.

“It feels good to be the anti-establishment figure until the entire establishment comes raining down on you, and that’s what they’re going to do to him,” radio talk show host Laura Ingraham said of Paul in an interview. “I’m a little surprised it’s happening so early.”

Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a rebuke of Paul in the Washington Post, casting him as an isolationist who would let terrorism fester beyond U.S. borders.

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