Rand Paul: GOP Needs 'Transformation' To Become 'A New Republican Party'

Rand Paul: GOP Needs 'Transformation' To Become 'A New Republican Party'
US Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky talks with a staff member as he walks to participate in a cloture vote to end debate in the Senate on a bill to raise the debt limit until March 2015 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2014. The Senate later voted 55-43 to pass the debt ceiling increase and send it to US President Barack Obama for his signature. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
US Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky talks with a staff member as he walks to participate in a cloture vote to end debate in the Senate on a bill to raise the debt limit until March 2015 at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2014. The Senate later voted 55-43 to pass the debt ceiling increase and send it to US President Barack Obama for his signature. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had some prescriptions for the Republican Party in an interview with Glenn Beck on The Blaze that aired Thursday.

Though Paul insisted that it is "too early" for him to make a decision about whether to run for president in 2016, he did have suggestions for how his party could evolve to be more responsive to a changing electorate.

“I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime for the presidency unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party,” Paul told Beck. “And it has to be a transformation. Not just a little tweaking at the edges.”

Later in the interview, Paul said that he could be the one to push the GOP in the direction he wants it to move.

"There is a struggle going on within the Republican Party," he told Beck. "I will struggle to make the Republican Party a different party, a bigger party, a more diverse party and a party that can win national elections again."

He also mentioned that the GOP has to have "a better message and a better presentation" when talking to African-American and Latino communities.

Paul, who is frequently mentioned as a potential 2016 candidate, has previously discussed how the Republican Party needs to reach out more effectively to younger voters.

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