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A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.

I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role.

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.