“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
