Jeremy Peters: GOP Consider Changing Primaries by Closing Them off to Independents

PETERS: “Well, I think what you have going on right now is this discussion inside both political parties. Really, they are trying to answer the most fundamental question a political party can ask itself, and that’s, who do we want to participate in presidential primary process? On the Republican side, because of the success of Donald Trump, a man a lot of conservatives deeply, deeply mistrust, there is a call to close off the primaries, to make more of them closed, so you don’t have the opportunities that Trump had to pull in independent voters who are not registered Republicans."