Sen. Rand Paul Appears on CBS #39;s Face the Nation
Sen. Paul appears on Face the Nation to discuss criminal justice reform, Ebola and 2014 elections.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, says some people want a little bit more civility and discourse than Christie offers.
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The administration should allow health care workers to go fight Ebola in West Africa but suspend all non-essential travel to the Ebola-stricken region, says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky.
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DETROIT The GOP field office on Livernois Avenue is a squat, brick building with a grillwork of bars on its windows. The outpost in the predominantly Democratic, African-American neighborhood is a place where prominent Republicans dont often venture.
Rand Paul seems right at home.
The first thing he does when he walks in is to break up the rows of chairs assembled in front of a podium.
Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, has held other informal discussions with voters in mostly African-American communities throughout the year.
I just had a meeting like this in Atlanta last week and before in Ferguson, he noted, referring to the St. Louis suburb rocked by riots this summer after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager.
Hes also had meetings in Chicago and the west end of Louisville, where Cassisus Clay was raised.He held another one in Detroit in December, when he also spoke to the Detroit Economic Club.This one, in Detroits Sherwood Forest, was the first open to the press, according to an aide.
Instead of shooting out policy proposals from behind a lectern, Paul sets up the meetings as listening sessions just what Hillary Clinton did in upstate New York when she ran for Senate in 2000. At the time, Democrats saw the state as enemy territory.
Paul emphasizes criminal justice reform as well as conservative approaches to fighting poverty and improving education.
The senator is usually a harsh critic of President Obama, who remains popular among many African Americans. But on the subject of criminal justice reform, he praises Obama warmly.
We talked a little bit about criminal justice reform and I complimented him on some of the commutation of sentences hes done. He tried to correct some of the crack powder disparity with cocaine but still some people are already in jail, Paul told The Hill in an interview, noting a rare phone call he had with Obama a few weeks ago.
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Rand Paul courts the black vote
By Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 1:15 PM EST, Sun November 2, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday stood by his comment that the GOP brand "sucks," but said he sees "a lot of avenues for Republicans to break through" with young and minority voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The Kentucky Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the members of his party "have a chance" when they discuss issues like privacy rights, criminal justice reform, poverty and long-term unemployment with traditionally Democratic constituencies.
"But our brand is so broken, we can't even break through, you know, the wall that's out there," Paul said. "And this is the same with Hispanic voters, it's the same with young people in general."
Paul drew attention Thursday when he first said the GOP's brand "sucks" and compared it to Domino's crust, pointing to the pizza maker's advertising campaign admitting it had put out a poor product in the past. His comments were a hot topic among Washington's political class on Sunday.
James Baker, the former secretary of state and chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, disagreed with Paul, saying he wants Republicans to "stop the fratricide that has occurred from time to time in the past."
"I don't think the GOP brand sucks at all. I have never felt that," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
But Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told ABC's "This Week," that he's "very close" to Paul, and agrees with the sentiment that the GOP should engage with a diverse set of voters.
"Rand Paul is saying what I've been saying, which is we have spent way too long as a national party showing up at the end, and we've got to do better," he said, noting that Paul's comments came at an African-American engagement office in Detroit.
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