Rand Paul escalated his criticism of Donald Trump Friday, saying of his party’s front-runner, “Donald Trump takes us in the wrong direction.”
“We’ll be, we’ll be slaughtered, in a landslide. That’s why my every waking hour is to try to stop Donald Trump from being our nominee,” Paul told radio host Alan Colmes.
“He would be a disaster,” Paul said.
Paul was dropped from Thursday’s main debate stage, and declined to participate in the undercard. There has been no love lost between Paul and Trump. Trump appeared to get his wish from an earlier debate when he called for Paul to be dropped from the main stage and asked why he was there.
“Rand Paul should not be on this stage,” Trump said in a September debate.
In the interview, Paul also took issue with a criticism of his campaign, that he was performing poorly because he had sold out his libertarian base, and had trended too towards the establishment earlier in his campaign, leaving the door open for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to dominate the now booming anti-establishment lane.
“Everybody, every pundit out there tries to say, ‘Oh you’re not libertarian enough,’ but if the problem were if I’m not libertarian enough, and that’s why the poll numbers are not higher, that would be an argument that oh, libertarians are voting for Donald Trump, so it doesn’t really make any sense,” Paul said.
