Paul appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday morning and said this was the Democrats’ attempt to “trash” his campaign.
“When does my honeymoon period start?” Paul said.
It’s a line he repeated Thursday night on CNN, where he also blamed the media.
“I think what troubles me is that the news cycle has gotten out of control,” he told Wolf Blitzer. “It started with my Democrat opponent asserting this, but has never been my position.”
And the AP quotes Republican strategists who think Paul’s supporters could see the comments and resulting firestorm “as fresh motivation for voting him into Congress.”
Meanwhile, NRSC chief John Cornyn (Texas) is defending his new Senate candidate.
“Rand Paul, like every new candidate, is going to get better,” Cornyn told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt in an interview to air this weekend. Candidates, Cornyn said, “make mistakes and they misspeak.”
Paul, his GOP primary rival Trey Grayson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are scheduled to attend a unity breakfast in Kentucky on Saturday morning.
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