Sen. Rand Paul is in it to win it. Or at least he will be if he decides to throw his hat in the 2016 presidential race.
On Sean Hannity’s radio show Thursday, the junior senator from Kentucky said that while he hasn’t announced a presidential run yet in part due to “family considerations,” some of it also seeing if his “ideas are resonating.”
Hannity lauded Paul for extending his idea beyond the usual GOP framework and for his efforts to reach out to minorities and other typically Democratic voter blocs.
But Paul wondered if that would be enough. He does not want to run an exploratory campaign.
“If the ideas are resonating—if the ideas look like they have a chance—then it’s much more likely that I’ll make a go of this,” he continued. “If it looks like we’re at 1 percent, we’re not in the top tier, and it’s just going to be a quixotic sort of run, then I think it’s not something I want to do just for educational purposes. I would do it to be in to win. And that’s a decision we’re going to have to make later in the spring.”
This is an approach that will definitely set him apart from his father, frequent candidate Ron Paul.
Ron Paul used his presidential runs as a way to give air time and print space to his more radical ideas, knowing that he didn’t have a real shot at the presidency.
