{"id":963,"date":"2014-10-07T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=963"},"modified":"2014-10-07T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:37:44","slug":"if-you-support-common-core-you-will-lose-primary-rand-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/10\/07\/if-you-support-common-core-you-will-lose-primary-rand-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"If you support Common Core, you will lose primary, Rand Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GREENVILLE, North Carolina \u2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a harsh message for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and any other potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates: Support Common Core? You won\u2019t win the presidential primary.<\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal\">\u201cI don\u2019t see Common Core being\u2014if you\u2019re for Common Core and you\u2019re for a national curriculum, I don\u2019t see it being a winning message in a Republican primary,\u201d Paul said in an interview backstage at an event where he endorsed Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) for reelection. \u201cIf there\u2019s a Republican candidate out there\u2014let\u2019s just say there\u2019s a hypothetical one that\u2019s for Common Core. I\u2019m saying that that hypothetical candidate that\u2019s for Common Core probably doesn\u2019t have much chance of winning in a Republican primary.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Paul did not name Jeb Bush personally, but the former Florida governor and potential 2016 candidate has been an outspoken advocate for Common Core national educational standards. Bush was here in North Carolina on the other side of the state in late September to endorse the state House Speaker Thom Tillis\u2019 U.S. Senate bid against incumbent Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), during which Tillis sought to distance himself from Bush\u2019s views on both immigration and Common Core.<\/p>\n<p>During the event where he endorsed Tillis, Bush pushed Common Core and immigration\u2014two things from which Tillis distanced himself from Bush.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 14px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/10\/06\/Exclusive-Rand-Paul-To-Prospective-2016-Field-If-You-Support-Common-Core-You-Will-Lose-GOP-Primary\/\">Click here to read more from Brietbart<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREENVILLE, North Carolina \u2014 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a harsh message for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and any other potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates: Support Common Core? You won\u2019t win the presidential primary. \u201cI don\u2019t see Common Core being\u2014if you\u2019re for Common Core and you\u2019re for a national curriculum, I don\u2019t see it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,125,205,215],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-brietbart","tag-commoncore","tag-jebbush","tag-randpaul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}