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Eric Cantor originally supported Jeb Bush in the 2016 race, and he wouldn't say on Tuesday who he would endorse among the current field. Eric Cantor: I underestimated Trump

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor admitted Tuesday that he underestimated Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.

“I was predicting way back when that Donald Trump had no chance. I think many of us were,” Cantor said on Tuesday in an interview with CNBC. “I’ve stopped the business of predicting.”

The former Virginia representative said he can see "a lot of similarities" between his primary loss to Dave Brat in 2014 and Trump's campaign.

"Because he does best when it’s open primaries, where he gets independents and those who feel disaffected. Same thing that happened in my primary, overwhelmingly," Cantor said.

Cantor originally supported Jeb Bush in the 2016 race, and he wouldn't say on Tuesday who he would endorse among the current field. He said he thought the Indiana primary could solidify Trump's bid for the GOP nomination, and that the real estate mogul will clinch it if he gets 1,237 delegates, even if some are unbound.

“I think Hillary Clinton is not a strong candidate. Clearly she’s not inspiring those on the Democratic side of the aisle and Bernie Sanders has got the intensity. And Donald Trump has sort of changed the rules of the game here,” he said.

When asked whether the general election would come down to traditional swing states, Cantor had a different theory.

"I think there could be more states in play. I really do, because I do not think that the American people overall want to see more of the Clintons,” Cantor said.