Rand: Cruz’ Biggest Problem Is ‘Authenticity’

CAMEROTA: ‘POLITICO’ has a piece on — in Donald Trump’s absence what you will do and your strategy. So let me bounce it off of you. They say that, ‘for Cruz, Trump’s absence means that the other candidate whose trail him in Iowa, such as Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, only have one leader to fire upon. Paul, whose sagging showing in the polls caused him to miss the last debate, has been itching to take on Cruz.’ Is that your plan tonight?”
PAUL: “Well, you know, I think he does have an authenticity problem, particularly with liberty voters. You know, we don’t want the government collecting all our phone records. And when he told Marco Rubio that he voted for the reform because he wanted the government to collect 100 percent of our cell phone records, that troubles the liberty voter. When he didn’t show up to vote for audit the Fed, something I’ve worked on for five years to get a vote, that troubled the liberty voters. But I think also Rubio’s had a point with him on the immigration issue that Cruz now wants to accuse everybody and everybody in the whole world of amnesty. And this is short of his shtick in Washington and goes to the problems he has in Washington is he creates these false narratives. He says everybody’s for amnesty except for him. Except for during the debate over immigration, he actually was for legalization, which is not a bad thing to be for. In fact, if we secure the border first, I think it’s a reasonable thing that we can work towards. But he used to be for that, now he’s against it because he wants to be just as hard line as Donald Trump on immigration. And I think that there’s a certain falseness that is going to come forward as people begin to examine his changing positions.”
CAMEROTA: “And we can expect you to bring that up tonight.”