Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul makes his case for why he should be on the first-tier debate stage, saying Fox Business Network's decision to put him in the lower-tier debate is a "mistake."





RAND PAUL: We do not think that anyone should be able to characterize our campaign as anything less than first tier.



We've raised $25 million. We are going to be on the ballot in every state, and we just announced we have 1000 precinct chairs in Iowa.



So it is a rotten thing to do to try to designate which candidates have a chance and which don't, so we will not participate in anything that is not first-tier.