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Donald Trump Jr. is pictured. | AP Photo Trump Jr.: Dad is going through 'natural evolution'

Donald Trump is going through a "natural evolution" as a presidential candidate, his son Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday.

"There's aspects of things where he'll take things to a level that they need to be taken to, to be able to draw attention to it," Trump Jr. told CNN's "State of the Union," noting that on any of the issues his father has addressed, "he'll talk about them in a way no one else has, he’ll take them to a certain level."

Issues that were "taboo," that "no one wanted to touch," Trump Jr. said, "people are actually talking about it."

Trump Jr. rejected the notion that his father's campaign to this point has been an act, but rather that "sometimes he has to talk about things in a certain way to draw the requisite attention that that topic actually needs."

"No one else will touch it if he hasn't done that," he continued. "So I think for him this is a natural evolution, switching over, getting focused on the general election where he’s going to have to talk to the broader audience. So I think it’s a very natural progression."

Asked by Jake Tapper whether Trump's proposals to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country illegally should be taken at face value, Donald Trump Jr. said they should.

"I think that's to be taken literally," he said. "He's the only person talking about that. Everyone else jumps on the bandwagon after he says it, three weeks later everyone else once he's taken the heat and criticism, once he's taken on all of that then everyone else jumps on, wait a minute this is a winning idea, something that makes sense and then they do it. He's the only one of the candidates that ever had an original thought in years."

Tapper pressed, asking if people should take Trump at face value but acknowledge that there might be some "rhetorical flourish."

"I think without question, yeah, that's only natural," he said. "I see that in politics all the time, everyone pretends that's not the case but that's very much what I've seen."