In North Carolina, Rand Paul touts tea party diversity

By Mary C. Curtis
May 9 at 9:44 am

CHARLOTTE — Earlier this week, Rand Paul was showing the flag in North Carolina, the one that says “Don’t Tread on Me.”

The Republican senator from Kentucky could not boost his guy in the North Carolina Republican Senate primary into a runoff ...

The GOP sees Tillis as its best chance of winning in November, leading to a majority in the Senate. And the tea party should take heart, since Tillis’s positions – on health care, minimum wage and most every other issue – echoed much on any conservative check list.

But Paul came for a last-minute visit, despite Brannon’s anything-but-promising pre-election poll numbers. It was clear, from what Paul told She the People after the rally, that one of the things on his mind was making the tea party more closely reflect an increasingly diverse society. Almost a quarter North Carolina’s registered voters are African American, and the state remains a presidential battleground ...

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