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Ron Paul’s Sneaky Maneuver: Why He’s Scaling Back His Campaign

No 2012 Dropout

Ben Jacobs says by ‘no longer spending resources,’ Paul may be able to build power without taking blame.

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Ron Paul’s campaign may have undertaken the most passive-aggressive political maneuver in modern political history. While he isn’t dropping out of the GOP primary—or “suspending his campaign” in the current parlance—he announced Monday he “will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted.”

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