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John Kasich: Republicans need to move on from gay marriage debate

It takes lower taxes on business and individuals and finally, it takes fiscal sanity so we’re not blowing money like there’s no tomorrow. “You ought to absolutely know that if something happens to you along the lines of sexual harassment or whatever”, he said according to ABC News, starting off at exactly the wrong place for a conversation about rape and sexual violence. “The percentage of people, even if that percentage could be somewhat significant is greatly outweighed by those people who understand that civilization is at stake”, Kasich said.

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The thinking goes like this: Donald Trump falls short of the magical 1,237 votes needed to secure the nomination. “That is nearly like a miracle when you can do that, and he brought people together, and with his stature, his support, I think we’re going to be in very good shape”. “Don’t do that”, he said, as some in the audience applauded.

The speech, held at the Women’s National Republican Club across the street from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, held numerous same characteristics of Kasich’s past stump speeches – references to his childhood in a hard-scrabble Pennsylvania town, Kasich talking about the need to include “those who live in the shadows”, the poor, the disabled and the mentally ill.

Kasich also spoke out this week against the North Carolina “bathroom law”, which orders public schools and government agencies to designate use of bathrooms by the biological sex stated on a person’s birth certificate. Click the players to see the coverage. Though lagging behind his opponents in the Republican primary, the OH governor urged the roughly 300 hundred voters assembled Wednesday afternoon not to count him out. “In some of these primaries they don’t perceive me as conservative as they like”, said Kasich. He had a solution for that, which he gave as a bit of advice to the young student. However, most of Maryland’s delegates are allocated by congressional district, and so Kasich and Texas Sen. “It’s on all of us – men and women – to address campus sexual assault”, said Kirstin Alvanitakis, the Ohio Democratic Party’s communications director. “Well that’s actually how elections work”, Cruz said.

Kasich won out over Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, candidates the paper said would be “disastrous as President – Cruz because he is an absolutist ideologue, Trump because he suffers from the irreparable, disqualifying defect of being Trump”. “Fear turns to hope”, he said, “because we keep in mind to take strength from each other”.

He received fewer votes in one state than a candidate who was no longer in the race.

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Although he is behind in his number of delegates, Kasich and his supporters believe his character and policies will carry him to a successful standing in the upcoming New York State primary.

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