He failed be cause he’s Rand Paul. He’d rather go after the pot smoking voters.
Really haven’t seen Rand going after pot smokers, but it might be a good General Election strategy. Suspect there are more pot smokers in the USA than anti-gay conservative Christians.
Maybe I’m cynical. Gay marriage passed by a majority on a citizen initiative in my state, Washington, which is not nearly the pure-Blue hell hole that some make it out to be.