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Rand Paul thinks Donald Trump should exit the presidential race after dipping in the polls. | AP Photo Paul has advice for Trump on his slip in the polls: Drop out

BOULDER, Colo. — Rand Paul has some words of advice for Donald Trump now that he’s dipped below Ben Carson in multiple polls.

“I think maybe he should get out of the race,” Paul said Wednesday during a news conference after he met with students at University of Colorado at Boulder for about 15 minutes.

But he also didn’t have much faith in the Iowa polls and one national poll that put the billionaire in second place. “The polls are very loosey-goosey in a way because we’re polling undecided people. ... Not to be critical of the media, but I will. The media doesn’t really understand what the polls represent. They’re a moment in time of uncommitted voters,” Paul said.

The Kentucky senator, who himself has been lagging in the polls, had a lofty goal for himself at Wednesday night’s debate. He said he would count the event as successful if every American knows he’s the “only fiscal conservative on that stage.”

“I’d like every American to know that I’m one who says enough is enough. We shouldn’t add any more debt. … I also want everyone to know I’m the only fiscal conservative on that stage,” Paul said.

Paul said he didn’t have any big plans to prepare for the rest of the day though he joked he may nap on Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations." (The CNBC debate on Wednesday night is expected to focus on the economy.)

“I have a really thick book on the economy, Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ and I’ll be sleeping on the ‘Wealth of Nations’ and hoping I absorb some of it,” he said. “No seriously, I think we’re done kind of preparing for the debate, but we think of questions that might be asked, we think of responses, we think of how best to put forward my message. And I think the message that distinguishes me from all the others is I’m the only true conservative on that stage.”

Paul’s communications director, Sergio Gor, shared with POLITICO a bit more information on how the Republican candidate was preparing.

“I think the senator has been reading up a lot, you know, making sure he can articulate his issues, this is very much in his wheelhouse. He is the most fiscally conservative debate participant, and we need to make sure that comes across,” Gor said. “Unlike a lot of people on that stage who might be for lowering taxes or cutting the national debt, he’s actually introduced tangible legislation that does just that.”