A Conversation with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Sen. Rand Paul visited the UChicago Institute of Politics for a conversation with students and community members about various political topics of the day.
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Rand Paul on Education "I Don #39;t Think You #39;d Notice If The Whole Department Was Gone Tomorrow"
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Rand Paul criticizing Ronald Reagan
The Kentucky senator has been hailing Reagan lately, but a few years ago, Paul routinely knocked the Republican icon as a fiscal failure. Read the full story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/20...
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Freedom Summit at The Executive Court Banquet Facility April 12, 2014 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Darren McCollester, Getty Images
With his eye on a potential 2016 presidential bid, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is continuing his push to get the Republican Party to broaden its appeal.
Paul visited Chicago Tuesday to speak at an all-girls Catholic high school and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, where he was interviewed by former Obama adviser David Axelrod.
He argued that talking about the need to win more minority voters means little without actually having something to say to them.
"We could use a few more votes," Paul told reporters at the Josephinum Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school, after speaking to students, parents and faculty, according to the Associated Press. "We have to figure out as Republicans how to get our message to the people who favor charter schools and favor choice in schools, and say, look, we do care about your kids."
Paul's ideas are broader than just promoting charter schools and school choice. At the University of Chicago later he promoted the idea of filming the nation's best teachers to show their work all over the country, and taking federal education funding and turning it over to the states.
"I would have it spent at the state and local level. I wouldn't spend it up there at all, I'd leave it at home," Paul said of the $100 billion spent annually on education at the federal level. And on the Education Department itself, he added, "I would cut them out of the loop. I don't think you would notice if the whole department were gone tomorrow."
Paul told Axelrod that that his party needs something different, because "the same old, same old's not working." He cited that experts say demographic trends don't favor the GOP in the long run because the growing minority populations tend to favor Democratic candidates.
"What I've been telling people is the Republican Party needs to be bigger, its got to have new people in it: African Americans, Hispanic, , Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, you name it, we need more people of a greater variety in our party."
One thing that won't necessarily help Republicans with minority voters: a continued focus on passing more stringent voter ID laws, which studies saydisproportionately affect young black and Latino voters in particular.
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul fires up libertarian-minded Republicans at the annual CPAC conference.
Washington:US Senator Rand Paul, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, said the Republican Party would win more support from young voters by highlighting what he says are violations of privacy by the federal government, including the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.
''It's a message that can grow the party, and the party's got to grow bigger or we're not going to win again,'' Senator Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday on Fox News Sunday.
Republicans are looking to improve their showing after President Barack Obama won 60 per cent support among voters younger than 30 in the 2012 elections, according to a national exit poll.
Senator Rand Paul speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in Maryland. Photo: AP
''Young people across the country are fed up with a government that says, 'Hey, the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to your records, doesn't apply to your cellphone','' Senator Paul said on the Fox program, referring to constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
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The 51-year-old senator is trying to build on the network of libertarian-leaning supporters that his father, former Representative Ron Paul of Texas, amassed during his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. The younger Paul has taken positions on civil liberties, criminal justice and foreign policy that differ from Republican orthodoxy, including his opposition to NSA spy programs.
''Lovers of liberty'' can't always agree with the Republican Party, he said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland.
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