{"id":39295,"date":"2012-04-26T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39295"},"modified":"2012-04-26T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:52:01","slug":"ron-paul-speaks-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/ron-paul-speaks-in-el-paso\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul speaks in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34864\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34864\" title=\"Paul, Ron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Paul-Ron.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Paul\" width=\"270\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Paul<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> has pretty much locked up the GOP nomination for president, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a> is still running for president, and he was in El Paso on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_20483388\/ron-paul-draws-supporters?source=rss_viewed\" target=\"_blank\">the El Paso Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPaul, 76, of Texas, spread his message of protecting individual freedoms, limiting government and withdrawing American troops abroad before a crowd of more than 1,000 people Wednesday at the University of Texas at El Paso\u2019s Magoffin Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the remaining Republicans competing for their party\u2019s nomination, Paul has won the support of the fewest delegates, 79, while front-runner Mitt Romney has 844 delegate votes and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 137, according to The Associated Press. Gingrich\u2019s campaign announced Wednesday that he would soon suspend his bid for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018It\u2019s to have a presence now, the best presence we can at the convention,\u2019 Paul said in an interview Wednesday. \u2018This past weekend, we were doing exceptionally well. We\u2019re starting to win the chairmanships of some in the Republican Party, so we\u2019re really changing the structure of the Republican Party as well as participating in the campaign.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article and view a photo gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_20483388\/ron-paul-draws-supporters?source=rss_viewed\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Mitt Romney has pretty much locked up the GOP nomination for president, Ron Paul is still running for president, and he was in El Paso on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,226,116],"class_list":["post-39295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-presidential-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}