“Anybody who discounts him is shortsighted. I don’t think anybody should discount him. Nobody thought that we would see him in the position he is in right now. He is certainly the front-runner with no signs of that fading. I think he has a really great opportunity even if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination to do something I think the country has needed for a long time, which is to try to break this stranglehold of the two-party system. I kind of hope he decides to stick with it and maybe give people another option outside of the Republicans and Democrats.”
— Singer Clay Aiken, who ran for a North Carolina congressional seat in 2014 and crossed paths with Trump on Celebrity Apprentice, in an interview with Billboard
Clay Aiken is pulling back the curtain on how "The Apprentice" really worked. Photo: Aiken, Screenshot/News & Record; Trump, AP
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