Sen. Jim DeMint, the Tea Party leader whose endorsement is highly coveted by GOP presidential candidates, believes the eventual nominee must adopt some of Rep. Ron Paul’s ideas in order to expand the party enough to beat President Obama this fall. While still wishing for a conservative nominee, the influential South Carolina lawmaker said it is more important to pick a winner, a position many voters agree with. “It doesn’t matter which four of the Republicans wins. If one of them wins [the White House], we can pull the country from a cliff,” he told Washington Secrets.

Promoting his new book “Now or Never, Saving America from Economic Collapse,” which he described as a rallying cry to defeat Democrats, DeMint said Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have “attributes that could work.”