Rand Paul talks to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about being excluded from tonight's Republican presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina.
SEN. RAND PAUL: I think Donald Trump would be a disaster for the Republican party. I have spent the last two years trying to say we need to be a bigger party, more inclusive, more diverse, rich, poor, white, black. I have been really trying to expand the notion of our party and I think Donald Trump is trying to narrow that and there is a certain anger that appears to be directed toward different ethnic groups that I think is a mistake. Our party I think actually needs to do much more than we have done to be a bigger party. I think Donald Trump would take us back a generation or two and I think would absolutely destroy the party. So I'm doing everything I can to make sure that he's not the nominee...
We have pointed out to the Republican party and to the network that if you look at the polls that have come out, that we should be included... It looks like they want to shrink the Republican party if they want to push the liberty vote, the libertarian-leaning voters out of the party. These voters can go other places. They sometimes vote for third party candidates and so I don't know. We think it's a mistake that they made. We hope they will try to correct it.
