Sean Hannity had Rand Paul on his radio show today to ask him about the NY Times article where it was reported that he said “I think it’s wrong for Republicans to go crazy on this issue because it’s offending people.” In short, Paul explained that while both sides have over-emphasized this issue, his point had nothing to do with the reality of the law, but the perception of the law.







Paul argues there are a group of voters we need to court who have the wrong perception of voter-ID and because of that, we need to be careful not to over-emphasize voter-ID because it will turn off those voters. In reality he has no problem with the law, he just feels like we should talk about other issues that will help draw in those voters instead of pushing them away by talking about voter-ID.

Listen to the interview below. I’ve transcribed a relevant portion of it below as well: