Fresh from besting a crowd of potential candidates for president in a national poll, Rand Paul says he wants to grow the Republican Party big enough to win presidential elections again whether he runs or not.
"We need to welcome new members. We need more African-American members, more Hispanic members, more Jewish-American members, more Asian-American members," the Kentucky senator said in an interview Monday.
Paul spent the weekend snowboarding with his family in Park City and attended a fundraising breakfast for Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, at the Alta Club.
On Sunday, Paul did something that his father, Ron Paul, never did: top a list of possible GOP presidential candidates in a national poll.
A new CNN/ORC International survey showed 16 percent of Republicans and independents who lean toward the GOP say they would likely support Paul for the 2016 nomination.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Mitt Romney's 2014 running mate, garnered 15 percent, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry had 11 percent. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was the one other potential candidate to reach double digits in the poll that included Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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2 comments:
It's kind of baffling that at the very same time that the world is coming apart at the seams, and American influence is waning to the detriment of everyone everywhere, Republicans are showing support for the son of the man with the craziest foreign policy views imaginable. Ron Paul is about as far left as you can get on foreign policy, and Rand has done little to distinguish himself from the views of his father. Sure, he's softened up the rhetoric, and made it a little more palatable, but underneath the surface, it's not very different. So unless, or until Rand makes a clear and clean break from Ron Paul, I won't be able to support him. And in the end, I don't think most Republicans will either.
-Martha
I'll double check tonight at the GOP meeting, but I don't think a whole lot of cash was raised here for Lee by Paul. Neither are very popular here at this time. ellie
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