VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Rand Paul spent Monday touting Ken Cuccinellis libertarian bona fides across Virginia.

The Republican candidate for governor brought in the Kentucky senator for three joint appearances aimed both at firing up the base and stopping the bleeding of support to a Libertarian Party candidate ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

Robert Sarvis, persistently pulling around 10 percent in polls, could be a spoiler.

Paul delivered the convocation at the Liberty University convocation Monday morning in Lynchburg, flew here to the coast for an afternoon rally at a Filipino Cultural Center and finished the tour with a get-out-the-vote event in the D.C. suburb of Fairfax.

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The likely 2016 presidential candidate avoided directly attacking Sarvis in his public speeches, instead praising Cuccinelli for opposing intrusive government surveillance programs and new forms of gun control.

He also highlighted the current Virginia attorney generals success at exonerating a wrongfully-convicted man and freeing him from jail.

Theres only one candidate that will defend the Fourth Amendment, that will defend the Sixth Amendment, and its Ken Cuccinelli, said Paul.

Asked after his speech why Cuccinelli is better than the third-party challenger, Paul said he has heard Sarvis wants to create forms of taxation which is not a very libertarian idea.

I dont know a lot about his platform, said Paul. I like a lot of the things Ken Cuccinelli stands for.

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Libertarian divide on display in Va.