it s not a large number of delegates. puerto ricans can t even vote in the november election, but all the republican candidates, except ronald reagan, have been trying to win friends under the palm trees. and the son of one of them has been there almost 60 days. linda ellerbe has that story. reporter: the campaign trail in puerto rico is different. kennedy baker reporter: puerto rico, not new hampshire, is the first primary, at least for republicans. in puerto rico, it s important to remember that democrats and republicans don t count as much as local parties do, which doesn t stop democrats and republicans from spending money and time here. and in one case, donating a member of the family. [ speaking spanish ]
that day, the nerves go to the knees, and it must be comforting to remember that you are the candidate s son, not the candidate. and if dad loses, nobody will blame jeb. except perhaps jeb. linda ellerbe, nbc news, puerto rico. linda ellerbe is such a god. always has been. but that tape, jeb bush s knees literally knocking. his knees shaking, as he stood before that crowd in puerto rico. that was february 1980. but all of jeb s very nervous campaigning down there did pay off. poppy bush won the puerto rico republican primary that year with 59% of the vote, he won all 14 of puerto rico s delegates. and coming off his win in the iowa caucuses that year, poppy bush had real momentum. that presidential campaign, that 1980 campaign for his dad, that really was jeb bush s first foray into national politics.
it was the decadence and the sticky, sweltering misery and the palpable fear that was late 1970s new york city. but there was a singular american titan who emerged from that disaster, who emerged as the late 1970s turned into the 1980s. and he emerged from that sewer, from that terrible time, as, basically, the winner. donald trump, as i say, is just 33 years old. he took his father s rather modest by current standards, real estate empire in brooklyn, and expanded it considerably. he now has an apartment for sale in a new trump building called the trump tower, going up on fifth avenue. there it is. you can buy this apartment, one floor of it, one whole floor of that building, that is, $11 million, altogether. i like inner cities. i see the inner cities as being sort of a wave of the future now. i think with the problems of fuel and the gasoline shortages and everything else and the transportation, especially in the major cities such as new york and los angeles and chicago