FOX "Hannity"- Transcript: Debate Recap
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Here now with more reaction to the GOP debate, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Senator, good to see you.
PAUL: Hey, Sean, thanks for having me.
HANNITY: I wouldn't say this was a big night for the media. What was your reaction to the debate in general?
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PAUL: You know, I think one of the funny things is that I agree with Governor Christie. I saw more unity among the Republican field mainly because they're all unified against the moderators. And the crowd also sensed that the moderators seemed to be a bit biased with all of their questions.
HANNITY: Let's talk about what you have planned tomorrow, because -- and a lot of the candidates tonight were critical of this new budget deal, again spending more money, more deficits. You are going to start a filibuster tomorrow. Are you planning on not drinking a lot of water tonight? You planning on being out there a long time?
PAUL: We'll see what happens. But to me this deal represents exactly what's wrong with Washington. You've got the Republican establishment making an agreement with the president. And do you know they're going to raise the debt ceiling by an unspecified amount? So they're giving the power to President Obama in his final year to spend whatever he wants to spend. No limits. There will be no limit on the debt ceiling when this passes. This is horrendous. Every conservative in the country ought to be up in arms. And I ask them, call your congressman.
HANNITY: The next logical question, though, is, why are Republicans allowing this to happen? John Boehner is going to leave his job as speaker and Paul Ryan will be the new speaker tomorrow. But since he's been speaker, the debt has gone up $4.1 trillion. That doesn't sound like a party of limited government to me.
PAUL: It bothers me also. And Paul Ryan's going to vote for this increasing the debt, which is an unlimited increase in the debt. They're also busting the budget caps for both military and domestic welfare. And this is the unholy alliance I've been talking about in Washington, where the right gets what they want, increased military spending, the left gets what they want, increased domestic spending, and there's short of the secret handshake and all the spending goes up. But they're bankrupting the country, both the right and the left.
HANNITY: All right, so how do you feel about where you stand in the campaign right now? Poll numbers are I'm sure not where you want them to be. Do you take them seriously? And how do you get the poll numbers up, and how do you get to the top of this race?
PAUL: Right now the polls are of undecided voters. Two-thirds of everybody in every poll they put out is undecided. So there's sort of a fiction, but the media is obsessed with the numbers. They think it must be math because it's a number. But these numbers mean absolutely nothing now. We have a great ground game. I had 700 kids at the University of Iowa the other day. I had 700 at Iowa State. We are on the ground. We are planning on winning. We're going to be in the middle of this. We think the polls really don't represent anything and may not until January.
HANNITY: All right, thank you, senator, for being with us. We appreciate it.
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