Rand Paul

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, R-Ky., is surprised as he's handed a root beer float by Linda Guilmet during a campaign stop at Mary Ann's Diner, Saturday, June 6, 2015, in Derry,NH (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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Today's Rand Paul news: Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul told a Philadelphia talk show host that most of America agrees with him on privacy issues. "Inside the Beltway, I'm very unpopular," Paul told 1201 PHT midday host Dom Giordano. "Once I leave the Beltway and I get out and I visit voters in New Hampshire, or Kentucky or Iowa or wherever I go, South Carolina, we have hundreds of people who show up to every event and to a person, they think the government has gone too far.. . If you interview people under 40, 83% of them in a recent survey said that the government has gone too far in collecting our records:" CBS Philly

The latest Ohio poll from Quinnipiac University shows Paul would tie the vote with Hillary Clinton in Ohio if an election between them were held today. The only potential GOP candidate who would do better against Clinton in Ohio is Ohio Gov. John Kasich: Quinnipiac University

Paul hasn't missed a Congressional Baseball Game since his election, in 2010. It's rare for a senator to play at all--the House fills most of the rosters--let alone one as high profile as Paul. His father, former Texas representative Ron Paul, is a member of the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame. In seven career games (all preceding his own three Presidential runs), the elder Paul hit .294, with six runs scored and six R.B.I.--including the first over-the-fence home run in the game's history. As a high-school and college student, Rand Paul, who grew up an avid Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball-card collector, would accompany his father to Republican team practices: The New Yorker

For second time in the same number of weeks, Paul used a fake quote from an American historical figure. Last week BuzzFeed News noted Paul used a fake Patrick Henry quote in a speech in South Carolina, and this week Paul looks to have misattributed a quote to Abraham Lincoln. "I like the Lincoln quote where he says, 'any man can stand adversity but if you want to test a man give him power.' And the test is whether the power goes to their head or they try to accumulate more," Paul said. The Lincoln quote, as noted by Harold Holzer, one of the nation's foremost scholars on Lincoln, is fake: BuzzFeed