Sen. [crscore]Rand Paul[/crscore] says that he is more worried about a Donald Trump presidency than a Sen. [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] presidency.

Appearing on CNN’s “Wolf” on Wednesday with Wolf Blitzer, Paul argued, “I do worry a little more about Donald Trump and the main reason I do is I believe he wants more power to come to him and he’ll take care of us all if we just give him power.”

Despite the fact that Paul says a Trump presidency worries him more, Paul said, “I think Ted Cruz’s problem is one of authenticity right now, you know, for example the liberty voters, the people who we like and like us, they don’t want the NSA collecting all the phone records but Ted Cruz says, ‘Oh, I voted for reform, but I voted for the reform so the government can collect 100% of your cell phone records.’ Our people pause at that and say, ‘My goodness, is he trying to have it both ways? He says he’s for reforming the NSA and in the same breath he says he wants the NSA to collect 100% of cell phone records.’ That kind of leap back and forth or trying to have it both ways really, we think, is probably Cruz’s biggest problem now.”

Blitzer asked Paul who would be “worse, Trump or Cruz” and Paul argued, “I don’t think it’s probably instructive. I do worry a little more about Donald Trump and the main reason I do is I believe he wants more power to come to him and he’ll take care of us all if we just give him power. But I’m part of a limited government tradition that says, you know, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“And we aught to be very, very careful with giving up power,” Paul said, “I want to devolve power back to the states and the people. And there’s a long-standing conservative slash libertarian tradition of that, and I’m more than willing to hold that up against what Trump wants because I think what trump wants is bad for America.”

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