He noted that Kasich finished his 100th town hall meeting in New Hampshire earlier Friday and that the number 101 has special meaning to him.
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The star power comes as Kasich fights for the top-tier finish that he says he needs in New Hampshire’s primary to keep his campaign afloat.
According to the latest NBC News poll, Kasich has 10 percent of support among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, trailing only Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
Schwarzenegger, who governed the Sunshine State from 2003 to 2011, will participate in a televised town hall with Kasich and Granite State voters later Friday, The Columbus Dispatch reports.
The interview took place on the Kasich campaign bus after a town hall meeting with students of Concord High School.
In New Hampshire, the friendlier tone is what he plans to project right up until the end.
The Boston Globe rallied behind Kasich on Thursday, reminding readers that the Ohio Governor is no “hard-line” Republican, and he even “acknowledges that carbon emissions have contributed to climate change”, which is a staple issue for the left.
In the remaining days before the primary, most of the candidates have gone negative and are focused on making attacks on each other.
After recent endorsements and nonstop positive coverage from the New York Times and Boston Globe, other outlets, such as the Washington Post, have joined in on the act, portraying Kasich as someone who is deeply in touch with his emotions and a man who has an independent mindset, unlike his supposed hardline radical opponents.
“If I get smoked here, I’m going to cry and I’m going to go home”, he said last month.
Leonard said he thinks it really depends on the point spread between third and fourth to see whose campaign stays alive. “You can’t play catchup with an organization, you can’t play catchup with town halls”.
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That’d mean no White House and (probably) no No. 1 Observatory Circle (the vice president’s house) for John and Karen Kasich. “Because I’m my own man”.
