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updated 10:05 AM EDT, Tue October 7, 2014

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, is considering a presidential bid in 2016.

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(CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul appears to be warning former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other potential 2016 candidates that support for Common Core would be a losing position in the GOP presidential contest.

"If there's a Republican candidate out there -- let's just say there's a hypothetical one that's for Common Core. I'm saying that that hypothetical candidate that's for Common Core probably doesn't have much chance of winning in a Republican primary," the Kentucky Republican told Breitbart.com.

His comments, published Monday, come from an interview last week while Paul was in North Carolina campaigning for Senate hopeful Thom Tillis and Rep. Walter Jones.

Paul didn't mention Bush or any other potential 2016 candidate by name, but the former Florida governor has been a vocal backer of Common Core, a set of national education standards for English and math.

"The danger of having one central governmental authority deciding curriculum is, what if we get some people who decide we really need to treat Karl Marx fairly, we need to make sure he gets a good writeup in the history, and Adam Smith, oh gosh, he was terrible," Paul said. "You can see how once it's nationalized, one person can insert a bias into the curriculum, and it goes everywhere, and then you have to fight it."

While conservatives accuse the program of interfering with local government control, the standards were developed by the bipartisan National Governors Association, state governments and nonprofit groups.

But if states want a share of President Barack Obama's Race to the Top education grants, one of the ways to get it is by adopting Common Core. In that sense, the government created incentives for states to embrace the standards.

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