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A state leader for Donald Trump’s campaign says this presidential election is not about selecting the perfect candidate.

“No candidate is perfect,” Washington Sen. Doug Ericksen told Seattle’s Morning News. “We’re not electing a person to be the perfect president. We’re electing the person to be the president for today in America and I think that’s the way people need to look at it.”

Even though the location of Trump’s second rally in Lynden seemed to be somewhat last minute, it still drew a large crowd. The Lynden Fairgrounds were “beyond capacity,” with people outside of the rally who couldn’t get in, according to Ericksen. The reason for such a big turnout comes down to Trump’s message, he added.

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The people who attended the rally were a “cross section” of voters: from doctors and lawyers to blue-collar workers, Ericksen said. Not everyone there was a “hardcore” supporter, there were some “curious conservatives.”

“I think he is truly appealing to a cross-section of society and a coalition we haven’t seen since Ronald Reagan in [the 80s],” he added.

With Trump’s name-calling and treatment of certain demographics, ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dave Ross asked Ericksen how someone on the religious right could support someone who might be somewhat “morally lacking.”

“I have concerns in all these areas about any candidate that is going to run,” Ericksen said. Politicians have been known to change their views. However, “I believe that Mr. Trump is more conservative than Mitt Romney or John McCain were when they were candidates for president.”

People are drawn to Trump because of his views on keeping jobs in America and standing up for the working class, Ericksen said. That contrasts with what Ericksen says Hillary Clinton is trying to do, which is “destroy” certain industries.

“Somebody is standing up for the working people,” he said. “That’s why so many Democrats are crossing over, saying, ‘Finally someone is saying what they’re thinking.'”

Ericksen argues that Trump’s trade policies would keep jobs in America. It was another reason people flocked to the fairgrounds in Lynden, which wasn’t the original location for the Western Washington rally.