Paul: GOP Senate’s feud with Cruz ‘may be overstated’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pushed back Monday against the perception that Ted Cruz’s fellow GOP senators are not rushing to back the Texan’s White House bid because they don’t like him.
 
“I think that may be overstated. People say that over and over again, that there’s [this] personal sort of battle,” Paul, who ended his own presidential campaign in February, said during an interview on CNN.
 
{mosads}”With me, I just figure that what I want the Republican Party to be is a bigger, better, bolder party, more diverse,” Paul said.
 
Cruz, who is running second to front-runner Donald Trump in the GOP presidential race, has picked up the backing of just two Senate colleagues, Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Mike Lee (Utah).
 
GOP senators were invigorated after Cruz’s win in Wisconsin last week and felt that his performance would likely keep Trump below the necessary delegate threshold to clinch the nomination before the convention in July.
 
Paul, who has said he won’t endorse in the Republican primary, declined Monday to weigh in on the state of the race, saying he’s focused on trying to “unify Republicans.”
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