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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has snatched one of the GOPs young digital stars from likely primary opponent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

Vincent Harris and his Austin-based firm Harris Media late Monday joined up with RANDPAC, with Harris officially taking the job of chief digital strategist for the Kentucky Republicans political operation.

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Cruz also is shedding other staff. On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General-elect Ken Paxton tapped as his top assistant Chip Roy, the senators top Cruz political strategist and former chief of staff.

Harris, who led the 2014 digital campaign for Sen. Mitch McConnell, has ties to several potential Republican presidential candidates. He led Mike Huckabees digital efforts in the 2008 GOP presidential primaries. In 2012, he handled Cruzs Senate campaign and also directed online strategy for Texas Gov. Rick Perrys presidential bid.

In an interview Tuesday, Harris said he picked Paul because of the Kentucky Republicans commitment to a strong 2016 digital campaign and because they both are alumni of Baylor University.

Rand Paul is a forward looking thought leader who is going to put a large emphasis on technology, probably a larger emphasis than any other candidate considering who he is, who his supporters are and his issue stands, Harris said.

Pauls digital team already includes Fredericksburg, Va.-based Saber Communications and CanDo Politics, which helped raise $35 million in small-dollar donations for Rep. Ron Pauls presidential campaign.

Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the staff shakeups are part of the normal ebb and flow of politics, adding that Josh Perry has been the senators official digital director since 2012 as well as with his campaign in 2011 and is still dishing out Ted Cruz awesomeness on the internets every day.

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, says if President Obama moves unilaterally to grant legal status to potentially millions of illegal immigrants, the matter could ultimately end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Paul said Monday evening on Fox News Hannity program that a new Republican-controlled Congress could rein in potential executive orders through the appropriations process, as some in the GOP are calling for.

We can pass legislation, but legislation would have to be signed by him, he said.

But Mr. Paul hinted at another possible avenue, citing a case during the Truman administration where the Supreme Court overturned an executive order directing the government to run many of the steel mills in the country amid heightened demand from the Korean War.

I think with regard to immigration reform, hes doing something that Congress has not instructed him to do and in fact has instructed him otherwise, so I think the Supreme Court would strike it down - that takes a while, but that may be the only recourse short of a new president, said Mr. Paul, who is a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.

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A wall of Republican opposition brought down a controversial National Security Agency reform bill Tuesday night, leaving the future of the package in doubt ahead of a Republican takeover next year.

Sen. Patrick Leahys legislation that would end the NSAs bulk data collection narrowly fell short of the Senates 60-vote threshold, 58-42, a major defeat for privacy advocates, civil libertarians and a White House that supports the bill. The filibuster of the proposal prevents it from even coming to the floor for debate.

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Opposition was led by Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and colleague Sen. Rand Paul, who both voted down the legislation, though for different reasons. McConnell, like many Republicans, voted it down because he believed the reforms went too far, while Paul voted against the bill because it did not go far enough.

Paul said immediately after the vote that he felt bad about his vote against the motion.

They probably needed my vote, he said, opposing Leahys bill because it would extend the sunset provisions for the laws authorizing surveillance. Its hard for me to vote for something I object to so much.

Other heavy hitters joined the view that NSA proposal would make it difficult to combat terrorism, a crowd that included Marco Rubio of Florida, another potential White House aspirant.

They cannot cite a single example of this program being abused, Rubio said of the bills supporters. Not one. We are dealing with a theoretical threat.

Advocates of the bill made impassioned pleas to advance it past a filibuster, the rare proposal that drew the support of both GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Democratic Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California.

It would help address the problem of the American government spying on its citizens without cause, said Lee, a co-sponsor of the bill, on the Senate floor before the vote. What opponents of this bill fail to appreciate is that most Americans are deeply, deeply, concerned about the collection of their personal information.

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