Updated: Tuesday, April 7 2015, 10:09 AM EDT<\/p>\n
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)- For Rand Paul, it's all led to this moment. <\/p>\n
Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism -- dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined with an anti-interventionist foreign policy and general support for family values -- that he bets will create a coalition of younger voters and traditional Republicans to usher him into the White House. <\/p>\n
The test of that theory begins Tuesday when the Kentucky senator is expected to make official what has been clear for years: He's running for president. <\/p>\n
\"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government,\" Paul said on his new website. <\/p>\n
A formal announcement will come at a rally in Louisville and he'll immediately hit the campaign trail, swinging through New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada -- the states that traditionally vote first in the primaries and caucuses. <\/p>\n
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