Rand Paul: Democrats are ‘Adrift,’ But Republicans Face Risks if Conservatives Veer from PrincipleMatthew Boyle 2 Jun 2025 Washington, DC
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the longtime Senator and conservative grassroots leader from Kentucky, told Breitbart News exclusively that he believes the Democrats are “adrift” as a party without an identity right now. But, he warns, Republicans could face major risks and consequences in the upcoming midterm elections if they too lose their identity.
“I think for the moment they are adrift and can’t find their focus and they’re actually trying to focus on the one thing they have no chance of winning and that is the idea of whether criminals should be deported from our country,” Paul told Breitbart News when asked about the state of the Democratic Party.
“There’s no chance of them winning that debate. They lost it in the election but it’s also one of the things that I think that people largely approve of. They see gang members being deported from the country or being captured whereas no president was willing to do that before. So I think they’re going to lose on that issue. And I think the president should emphasize not only that issue but also the border,” Paul explained. “Ninety-five to 99 percent of the traffic across the border is gone really from the sheer force of presence of Donald Trump. Now that the border has been controlled, people know not to come. They know they’re going to be deported. They see the images on TV of these gang members being captured and deported. That just is sending a chill down the spine of all the people frankly with ill intent wanting to migrate up here because it looks like free pickings when you get here. I don’t think there’s ever been such a dramatic change as we’ve seen between Biden to Trump on that. The Democrats just don’t know what to do.”
One key moment for Democrats this year was the long filibuster by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), where he set a new record for floor speech time in the chamber. While Booker did in fact beat out the late Strom Thurmond’s record filibuster, the fact that hardly anyone knows why he was speaking for that long on the floor a couple months later is particularly deflating for Democrats. Paul’s longest filibuster, on the other hand, is still remembered more than a decade after his speech in 2013 opposing the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director during Barack Obama’s presidency. Paul’s marathon speech against Brennan kicked off a modern era of filibusters, and other earnest senators have followed his lead since then. But none, perhaps, was as memorable as Paul’s huge stand against Brennan. Asked about this, Paul remembered the speech— noting that he similarly opposed James Comey’s nomination to be FBI director — while pointing how right he was in hindsight.
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