article_snippet: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, appearing this morning in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz first nationally-broadcast interview since announcing yesterday that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz would run for president, attempted to shed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz conservative hardliner image.
article_snippet: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz appeared this morning in his first nationally-broadcast interview since announcing yesterday that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz would run for president .
article_snippet: Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul suggested in an interview Monday night on Fox News that Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul Senate colleague panders too much to conservatives to grow the GOP, however.
article_snippet: Acknowledging that Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul and Cruz have 'very, very similar voting records,' Presidential candidate-in-waiting
article_snippet: Rand Paul said 'what makes us different is probably us approach as to how us would make the Republican Party bigger.' '
article_snippet: But I also think that we should take those principles and try to bring in new people with new people,' Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul asserted.
article_snippet: Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul pointed out that as part of Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul preparations for a national run, Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul's traveled to areas that Republicans don't traditionally campaign in and spoken to groups such as the NAACP that Republicans haven't historically engaged with. '
article_snippet: Continuing Presidential candidate-in-waiting Rand Paul said, 'So, it isn’t just about rousing the base, it’s about exciting the base by being for the principles of liberty, but it’s then taking those principles of liberty, not diluting those principles of liberty, and taking those principles of liberty to new people and bringing those principles of liberty into the party. '
article_snippet: Cruz is a conservative, but it also goes to winnability, and people will have to make a decision which is the Republican that can not only excite the base, but can also bring new people into the party without giving up principles,' Cruz said, noting that Cruz fares better in polls against presumed Democratic presidential candidate, and nominee, Hillary Clinton.
article_snippet: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said in an interview Monday that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul'd be a better general election candidate than Cruz or any of the other conservatives running because Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul appeals to groups that are not  traditionally Republican .