Rand Paul to Republicans: We need black, Hispanic votes to win in 2016

The Republican Party must court black, Hispanic and Asian voters to win the presidency in 2016, GOP contender Rand Paul said today, as party faces a firestorm over comments made by frontrunners Donald Trump and Jeb Bush.

“We cannot win without being a more diverse party — that means the Hispanic vote and the African-American vote,” the Kentucky senator said on Herald Radio’s “Morning Meeting” show. “We are at 5 to 8 percent of the African-American vote … the Hispanic vote, the Asian vote, you name it, we do poorly with the different ethnic groups. We need to do better.”

Trump has drawn the ire of Latinos by describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and “drug-dealers,” vowing to build a wall on the Mexican border and urging the withdrawal of the long-held “birthright” to citizenship for babies born in the United States to illegal immigrants.

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