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Campaign | 2012 United States presidential election |
Candidate | Ron Paul U.S. Representative from Texas (1976–1977) (1979–1985) (1997–2013) |
Affiliation | Republican Party |
Status | Announced May 13, 2011 Lost Republican nomination to Mitt Romney |
Headquarters | Lake Jackson, Texas, U.S. |
Key people | John Tate (manager) Jesse Benton (chairman) Gary Howard, Jr. (press secretary) John McCardell (finance director) Fritz Wenzel (pollster)[1][2] Doug Wead (senior advisor)[3] |
Receipts | US$40,947,039 |
Slogan | Restore America Now |
Website | |
ronpaul2012.com (archived - June 6, 2012) |
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From 2011 to 2012, Ron Paul, a U.S. representative from Texas, unsuccessfully ran for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for the president of the United States.
On April 14, 2011, Paul announced the formation of a "testing-the-waters" account, and had stated that he would decide whether he would enter the race by at least early May. Paul announced the formation of an exploratory committee on April 26 in Des Moines, Iowa. He declared his presidential candidacy on May 13 in Exeter, New Hampshire.[4]
On July 12, Paul announced that he would not seek another term as the representative of Texas's 14th district to focus on his presidential campaign.[5] By April 2012, the campaign had raised more than $38 million.[6][7][8][9][10]
On May 14, Paul announced that he would end active campaigning for the remaining primary states and instead focus on delegate selection conventions at the state level.[11] On July 14, Paul failed to win a plurality of delegates at the final convention in the state of Nebraska, which ended his ability to ensure a speaking spot at the Republican National Convention,[12] where Paul's campaign won 190 delegates.[13]
The Texas congressman raised $1 million through his federal PAC...
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has raised at least $4.5 million, and his campaign is still counting up the checks, according to a senior campaign official