Clearly, a lot of daylight there. But never say never in Washington. If Trump were to get Paul on board with this plan, here's how he might do it:

1) Change it

As Republicans introduced their plan Tuesday morning, Trump seemed to recognize that not everyone in his party was going to like it. So he offered this olive branch:

“Review and negotiate” appeared to be an acknowledgment on the president's part that this legislation, as it stands now, probably won't be able to pass Congress.

That's the starting point to get Paul on board.

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So what kind of “negotiation” would make Paul happy? Several things, which brings us to our next few items on the Win-Rand-Paul-Over-To-Do List.

2) Repeal all of Obamacare first

Earlier this year, Paul was actually one of the voices on Capitol Hill urging caution in undoing the 2010 health-care law, which has insured about 20 million people, without immediately implementing a replacement. Now, he suggests he won't play ball on a replacement until Obamacare goes.

Anything less would be a violation of the campaign promise so many conservatives like him ran and won on during the tea party wave of 2010, he said.

“Republicans across America ran on repealing the Big Government takeover of our health care system that is ObamaCare. Opposition to ObamaCare helped the GOP win the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and the White House in 2016. Repealing ObamaCare has been a key facet of all our recent victories,” Paul wrote in a joint Fox News op-ed with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.).

Paul and other conservatives are particularly irked by the income-and-age-based tax credits this proposal offers. He has called the tax credits “ObamaCare-like subsidies." (The current law gives lower- and middle-income people help to pay for the health coverage they buy on exchanges.)

Paul and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) say they plan to introduce a bill that would fully repeal Obamacare before debating how to replace it.

Trump has argued the opposite — Republicans will suffer politically if they don't accept this replacement.

3) Find a way to make health care cheaper for the federal government

To the angst of budget hawks such as Paul, a Trump presidency is not looking cheap.

A wall along the U.S.-Mexico border = untold billions. An effort to rebuild infrastructure = $1 trillion. Increasing the military's budget by 10 percent = a lot of money, too. And this Obamacare replacement doesn't end the expanded role Obamacare gave the federal government to help pay for lower-income people's health insurance.

Paul would like that federal contribution for Medicaid to go waaay down and the states' contributions to go waaay up. (Something the governor of his state, Matt Bevin (R), appears to be okay with.)

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In an interview Wednesday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” Paul described the GOP's replacement plan as “dishonest accounting." (Its actual cost hasn't yet been determined by the most respected of accountants in Washington, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.)

4) Drop the charm offensive

Apparently it's not working on Paul, who said this on MSNBC of Trump's overtures: “Every conservative that has come out publicly opposed to this has been called by the White House and is being cajoled and wooed by the White House to give in. But if conservatives stay together, if we stick together, we will have a force. …”

Trump's going to try anyway. The Courier-Journal reports he's planning a trip to Louisville, Paul's backyard, on Sunday.

5) Win over conservative groups

A number of influential, hard-line conservative groups are adamantly opposed to this reform bill for many of the same reasons Paul has given. And Heritage Action for America, FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth are signaling that they plan to use their substantial organizing skills and political leverage in Washington to hold the line on opposition to the bill.

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If Trump somehow found a way to ease these groups' concerns about the proposal — not an easy task, given that many of them did not support his candidacy — maybe he could ease pressure on Paul.