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WILTON Saying that "the wind is at our back," U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was optimistic here Wednesday about his party's chances in thefall election.

Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, was the headliner at an event for Republican Senate nominee Joni Ernst and state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann.

Winding up a day of campaigning in Iowa, Paul predicted victory on Nov. 4. "In two weeks we're going to boot 'em out, we're going to send 'em home and we're going to get America going again," he said.

Paul said the government has "gone crazy" with regulatory overreach. And he saidthe governmentcould improve the economy by trying to lure the more than $2 trillion in corporate profits from overseas back to the U.S. by lowering the tax on it to 5 percent. He said that would mean a return of $1 trillion, an influx of tax revenue and "real stimulus."

Currently, the corporate tax rate is 35 percent.

"If you want jobs not to go overseas, we have to be competitive," he said.

Paul is the latest national GOP figure to come to the state to help Ernst in her campaign against Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.

Both Paul and Ernst took turns poking fun at first lady Michelle Obama's mispronunciation of Braley's last name in her appearance here earlier this month. Ernst said the first lady's return to the state Tuesday to campaign again with Braley was a "mulligan tour."

In her remarks, Ernst criticized Braley on a range of issues, from the debt to foreign policy.

She called the Affordable Care Act the "largest tax increase in United States history."

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Paul rallies voters for Ernst, Kaufmann