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Ron Paul is planning a Jan. 2 whistle-stop tour throughout Iowa with his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, in a final push on the last day before the Iowa caucuses.

The campaign announced Thursday that Paul will spend the New Year's holiday in Texas rather than campaigning in Iowa, meaning that the five-county tour will be the presidential contender's last set of events before the first-in-the-nation caucus.

"In the run-up to the Iowa Straw Poll we were privileged to witness the historic occurrence of a sitting U.S. Senator campaigning for his father, a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, we are seeing Senator Paul support his father on the eve of the pivotal Iowa Caucus where we are hop! eful that Ron Paul achieves a strong top-three finish,” Paul's Iowa Chairman Drew Ivers said in a statement.

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