Ryan, Rubio Seek Party Rebranding
Lots of luck with that.
WASHINGTONTwo of the Republican Party's most prominent voices, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, laid out their visions for broadening the GOP's economic message in dual speeches Tuesday, as conservatives seek new moorings in the aftermath of Mitt Romney's presidential defeat last month.
The speeches revealed Mr. Ryan and Mr. Rubiorespectively, the party's most recent vice-presidential nominee and a freshman senator seen as a rising starmoving briskly to rebrand both themselves and their party at a time of debate and introspection over how to steer the GOP in a new direction.
The men, both seen as potential 2016 presidential hopefuls, used a packed awards dinner hosted by the Jack Kemp Foundation to lay out their views on the role of government in strengthening the middle class and assisting the poor.
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