Trump Jr. Primary System Made Sense ‘200 Years Ago’ When ‘Everyone Lived on a Farm’
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TRUMP JR.: "You know, I think we will do some of that. I think that’s natural. But, you know, I think his biggest thing is wanting to change the process. The fact that the average voter doesn’t even know that their vote may not matter, or that their vote matters, but if you don’t talk about the delegates — you know, my father could do more wooing than anyone. He just doesn’t want to play the game that way. He doesn’t think that is right for the country.
"Why should a couple people who are establishment elitists get to go on beautiful vacations? He could send his private plane and take them down to Doral. They could play golf for a week, and then we win that delegate? That’s the not the way this country should be run, Jake. I’m here with two congressmen from the state of Pennsylvania, and we have to print out cards because every district of the hundreds of districts in the state have three people that could serve as delegates for us or for someone else.
"So, you could actually win the state in a landslide. And of the 70- something delegates that are there, you only get 17. The other 50 and change, they are up for grabs for whoever bribes them. I think this isn’t America. This isn’t a country. This is the way it’s been. And some of the systems, I understand, they made sense 200 years ago, when everyone lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere.
"But I have the Library of Congress in my iPhone. I have all the information I could possibly need. Most people still have cable television, right, and certainly access to news. They know what is going on.
"They don’t need this archaic system. But the establishment and the guys like Ted Cruz, they love this system, because they don’t actually have to appeal to the voters. They don’t have to care what the voters say. They just have to grab these umpteen people who have been party loyalists and do whatever the party says. And that’s the problem in Washington. That is what creates the stalemate."
