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Following Republican Senator Rand Paul’s announcement that he’ll be entering the 2016 presidential race, the major broadcast networks each devoted a full segment to the Kentucky Senator’s event in Louisville on their Tuesday night newscasts.
After all three networks declined to label Paul a conservative during their morning news shows, ABC’s World News Tonight broke ranks and labeled him a “mainstream conservative” on issues such as abortion, gay marriage, and tax cuts. Fellow networks CBS and NBC continued not use the conservative label and stuck to labels such as “Republican” and “libertarian.”