Rand Paul tweets his New Year's resolutions — plus gets in some digs against Cruz, Rubio, and Trump
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) enjoys spending his holidays — both real and made up — on Twitter. In December, he celebrated Festivus by airing his grievances online, and for New Year's Day, the Republican presidential candidate decided to tweet out a few of his resolutions.
He started off with a typical Rand Paul message:
Then moved onto the sensitive subject that is his hair:
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He later poked fun, GIF style, at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump:
Paul then set his sights on his fellow senators and opponents in the GOP presidential race, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio:
In fact, he got in multiple burns against Cruz:
Finally, he ended as he began, on a very Rand Paul note:
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Read all of the senator's New Year's resolutions on his Twitter.
Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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