Ted Cruz, however, will get a repeat performance.
The National Rifle Association's annual convention will be missing a pair of prominent tools
when it convenes this Friday.
Neither Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky nor New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was invited to address the NRA’s Leadership Forum, NRA officials confirmed to The Tennessean.
“We have a really lengthy program and we have the longest list of potential presidential candidates to speak at the Leadership Forum this go-around, and we just could not accommodate everyone,” Jennifer Baker, director of public affairs for the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, told the Nashville paper.
The Christie snub is almost expected at this point, under the general banner of nobody likes Chris Christie, but the Rand Paul omission is perhaps more significant. He is, after all, one of the only two Republicans who has actually
announced himself as a candidate. The other is Ted Cruz, who is speaking, along with
pretty much everyone else. Donald Trump secured an invite, but not Rand Paul? Hmm.