left the keys with a neighbor. two, five, ten years of living here and then gone in a matter of days to tennessee, illinois, oregon, florida, arkansas, mexico, who knows, anywhere but alabama. it was an overnight disappearance. thousands of people in alabama literally fleeing their homes in the middle of the night after alabama republicans passed the most anti-immigrant law in the country by a mile. now to alabama where a federal judge has upheld the toughest immigration law in the country, a law that goes so far as to tell elementary schools to investigate their kids, opponents of this law are promising a fight. nbc s kerry sanders in birmingham, alabama, for us tonight. kerry, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. the state immigration law is now on the books here. but those who will have to enforce it are yet to figure out
already be on the ballot in the general election as the republican nominee for senate, in kentucky you can t just swap in somebody else s name on the ballot at the last minute. so in that circumstance if he were the republican nominee it s possible that the only hope kentucky republicans would have for holding on to that u.s. senate seat, keeping that senate seat in republican hands it s possible the only hope to do that would be to maybe i gels write a write-in campaign for somebody. that s how they d run against this guy? this guy looks like this might be the second coming of bill clinton in kentucky democratic politics right now. so, rand paul does get the republican nomination for president, ha, i know. if the he does kentucky republicans are really looking down the barrel at losing the u.s. senate seat they now hold and it going to that democrat instead. that s one scenario. if rand paul does not win the republican nomination, he s not
addition to their primary, specifically so rand paul can be allowed to get around kentucky law so he can run for his senate seat and for president at the same time. which is something that some increasingly outspoken kentucky republicans believe is a bad deal for them. it would risk their losing that u.s. senate seat to the democrats whether or not rand paul wins or loses the republican nomination for president. unless rand paul gets that two-thirds super majority vote tomorrow which would let him run for his senate seat and president at the same time which is what he wants to do, unless he gets that vote tomorrow letting him do that, as of tomorrow he s going to have to pick which of those seats he wants to run for because he won t be able to do both. one or the other. presidential run which he will almost assuredly lose, for senate re-election bid. something he would have a much better chance at even though it wouldn t be guaranteed. which would you pick if you could only pick one? i
year for republicans is from rand paul to mitch mcdonnell this effort to try to spike the career of the democrat who kentucky republicans are most afraid of in terms of the way he will move up. jessie benton had been dispatched to do that. to help rand paul. he had to step down from everything to fight these federal charges against him. he pled not guilty yesterday in federal court in iowa. jessie benton said he will clear his name. of course with that big political gun no longer pointing at him, adam s path looks prieter and clearer than ever for this democratic star to be to run against rand paul and try to take away his senate seat next year. that brings us to the other big problem for rand paul, which is why there is good reason to believe that rand paul might reasonably quit the presidential race as early as this weekend. that s because tomorrow rand paul has to be home in kentucky trying to persuade two-thirds of
since ann richard, since bill clinton in his prime. this guy is that good. i think he is that caliber. watch him. watch this guy. we can do big important things in kentucky when we get beyond mindless, empty cotton candy rhetoric and get about the business of changing peoples lives. folks, that s what s at stake this election. kicking half a million kentuckians off the insurance rolls with the stroke of a pen is cal loss and not christian. maybe this side of the aisle should put down the books of i and pick up matthew, mark, luke and john. so let s have it out. let s make sure that when we look at this battle we ve got this fall that it s not a dispute between republicans and democrats, my friends, this is the difference between the mainstream and the extreme. values that say we understand we