GOP turning into 'the old white man's party,' warns Rand Paul
US Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul says the Republican Party is turning into “the old white man’s party.”
“I think it’s important that the Republican Party not be seen as a party that’s not welcoming and that [doesn’t] want new people,” the Kentucky senator told MSNBC on Thursday.
“I’ve said we need to be a party that has, you know, [people] with earrings, without earrings, with tattoos, without tattoos, black, white, brown, rich [and] poor,” said Paul, son of Ron Paul, the 1988 presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party.
"If anything, one of the faults of the Republican Party is we’re not diverse enough. When we become the old white man’s party -- which we’ve been kind of headed towards for a while -- we’re never going to win another election,” he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Paul called on Americans to roundly reject the candidacy of Republican contender Donald Trump because of his dangerous rhetoric.
He criticized Republican voters supporting the New York billionaire Donald Trump, who is leading the crowded Republican field despite making controversial remarks against Mexican immigrants, women and Muslims.
“We need to be careful about letting the voice of the Republican Party be someone who thinks that all immigrants are rapists or drug dealers,” Paul said of Trump.
Trump, a disaster for GOP
“I think that Trump is a disaster for the Republican Party and a disaster for the image that would cultivate and bring new people in, but also for those who have a serious approach for how we would defend the country,” he stated.
“That should scare people to death,” he added. "Anybody that’s gotten beyond third grade would say, ‘oh, my goodness, we don’t want a president that is eager to use our nuclear arsenal.'”
"We want one, Republican or Democrat, who’s reasonable and restrained and knows it’s a deterrent, but [is] not eager to use it, by any means,” Paul said.
About a dozen Republicans are seeking their party’s nomination for president. On Thursday night, Republican candidates will debate on Fox Business Network. Paul has said he will not participate.
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