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Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is dropping out of the 2016 race for the White House. The South Carolina senator, who revealed the news in a CNN interview Monday morning, is the fourth GOP contender to drop out of the race, following Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The move leaves 13 candidates remaining in the race for the Republican nod.

"I watched the Republican presidential debates with neighbors, and two of the five people in the room said, ‘Who is that guy? I really like him,'" said Republican media consultant Tom Edmonds. "My gut tells me he's a sleeper and will indeed have an impact on the Republican race."

Sure he has a quirky style and his seemingly dovish and self-flagellating answer on the causes of 9/11 don’t make for good debate form, but in a time when the Republican Party is in desperate need of getting back to basics, Paul’s message may be the most basic of all. Paul will never be president, but neither he nor his supporters are really operating under that assumption. Paul’s candidacy is part of a greater American tradition of running a campaign based on principles in order to highlight the need for change, which is why it is fundamentally different than every...