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Paul Fights With 2nd Reporter

Republican Presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at a rally at the USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Thursday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), already in the spotlight for a televised fight with "Today" Show host Savannah Guthrie, got into a heated exchange over abortion on Wednesday with an Associated Press reporter. AP reporter Philip Elliott's interview with Paul became heated after Elliott pressed the presidential candidate to say whether victims of rape should be able to get abortions. "I gave you about a five-minute answer. Put in my five-minute answer," Paul told Elliot. "The thing is about abortion — and about a lot of things — is that I think people get tied up in all these details of, sort of, you're this or this or that, or you're hard and fast (on) one thing or the other," Paul said during the interview/The Hill. More here.

Question: Is Sen. Rand Paul's temper a problem re: his presidential aspirations?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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