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Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

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

The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.

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

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.

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

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.