Democrats pounced on Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) for apparently running away from a tough question today, but it turns out he was simply ending one interview to head to another.
“Pleased Rand Paul gave us a live Periscope interview,” the Guardian’s Paul Lewis, who conducted the interview, tweeted. “Shame he didn’t seem keen on answering specifics.”
The video, though, shows that Paul stipulated that he would take “one more question” and then, after answering that final question, said he had to go. His staff also interjected, before the lights were turned off in the room.
“AirRand Running Shoes: Good for running away from tough questions (like Rand Paul just did in Iowa),” the Democrats tweeted on their official Twitter account.
#related#But Paul was running to an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash. “We didn’t turn the lights off and neither did my staff. CNN producers did. It was time for my interview with [Bash],” his campaign tweeted.
Bash added that it was her team that shut the lights off. “He did get annoyed w[ith] the guy but actually we turned lights off when he finished [because] our [interview] was right after in same room,” she tweeted.
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