U.S. Senator Rand Paul stops in Williamsburg Friday morning

With the General Election looming just days away, candidates are making final pushes to bring voters out to cast ballots in their favor.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul is no exception, who made an early morning stop at the Williamsburg Tourism & Convention Center on Friday to speak with constituents about his campaign. During the stop, Paul railed against recent government spending, inflation and President Joe Biden’s handling of both.

“It’s part of a philosophy. It didn’t happen accidentally. You ask Biden how come have inflation he’s like, ‘Oh, uh, greed,’” said Paul, to a round of laughter. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. You think people have not always been greedy? And greed really is if it’s your money. If it’s my money, I’m just self-interested. You’re greedy, but I’m self-interested. It’s ridiculous. So, like, oil companies are greedy? You think they didn’t always want to make money?”

Paul talked about the COVID pandemic and denounced governmental responses to shutdown businesses during the
course of the last two years. Additionally, Paul questioned the current administration’s lack of a thorough inquiry into how the pandemic actually started.

“This isn’t a personal vendetta. This is about getting to the bottom of where the virus actually came from. A million people died in our country. At least 6 million died worldwide. It
may have been more. And yet there’s been no investigation. We’ve not had one congressional hearing on the origins of the virus,” said Paul.

Paul also asked everyone to be sure to go out and vote, noting that he had a good feeling about next week’s outcome.

“You know things are going our way when the lead story on CNN this morning says ‘Republicans are going to have a big night on Tuesday,” said Paul. “They’re saying it regretfully; they’re not too excited about it, but it’s going to be big.”

Paul is facing Democrat Charles Booker, who is a former state representative from Louisville and previously challenged Amy McGrath in the Democratic primary in 2020 for a chance at Senator Mitch McConnell’s seat.

Paul had several other campaign stops scheduled throughout the region Friday.