If you made a list of 12 people who have a real shot at the presidential election in 2016, who would you put on that list? There are people out there who feel in their gut that Rand Paul is ‘the one’. “Everywhere he goes, he has a large draw,” says Robert Augustine, the Nelson County GOP Chairman. Could winning CPAC again have something to do with the increased attendance at Augustine’s Lincoln Day dinner this past Friday? If anything, Augustine knows that there were definitely more people than there were last year.

“He’s clearly making a deeper connection with the American people,” says Nate Morris, a close friend and supporter of Paul. That could be why people were drawn to the Lincoln Day dinner at the Bardstown Country Club. Rand was speaking and here was their chance to see someone in-person who they might call President one day. So did he make that deep connection with them in Nelson County?

There were also appearances by the former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell), Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, 14th District Sen. Jimmy Higdon, 50th District Rep. David Floyd, and McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin. But who was the headliner? Paul was.

Listen to his keynote speech for yourself and then tell us if Rand still has ‘it’ on Facebook or in the comments below.

(Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, via Flickr Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0)

WATCH: Rand Paul’s Keynote Speech at the Nelson County Lincoln Day Dinner

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