Paul: I Would Have Voted For Civil Rights Act — Federal Intervention Was Needed (VIDEO) | Talking Points Memo

Rand Paul just can’t make up his mind.

The Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky, fresh off a much-discussed appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show last night in which he defended his past criticism of the Civil Rights Act, continued his walkback-turned-runback on CNN this afternoon by declaring that not only does he not favor a repeal of the Civil Rights Act, but that he would have voted for the landmark legislation had he been around at the time.Wolf Blitzer asked Paul whether he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act if he was a Senator or Congressman in 1964.


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