State of the Union Tea Party Response

Impact

The Tea Party's response to President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address will be delivered Tuesday by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — reported The Courier Journal. Paul, the son of 2008 and 2012 presidential candidate and retiring libertarian-leaning Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), was elected as Kentucky's junior senator in 2010 — riding the Tea Party wave caused by the passage of Obamacare in 2009. He is also named as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. "I think really there are some things that I will emphasize maybe Marco doesn't," Paul told CNN Sunday on State of the Union with Candy Crowley. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will be delivering the GOP's official response — both in English and Spanish