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Ron Paul announced Monday that the Texas congressman had earned the endorsement from a group of who seem like they should be solidly in the corner of rival Mitt Romney: the former Massachusetts governor's own family members.

Five distant cousins of Romney will all appear in Idaho on Monday in support of Paul's presidential bid.

“I support Ron Paul because he defends the Constitution, loves America and understands what it means to be an American, including the right to live your life any way you want as long as you respect others,” said Travis Romney, a Washington state chiropractor who is a second cousin once removed to the presidential candidate, in a statement. 

“I love his foreign policy of maintaining peace and trade while making a strong national defense a top priority, and that you only go to war legally through a declaration by the people through their elected representatives.”

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