“I beat an incumbent Democrat when I ran for the legislature at the age of 26”. That’s the way (Ronald) Reagan was.
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“I think ISIS has risen, frankly, because there’s been nobody over there to stop them”, he said.
He attributed Trump’s success in the Republican field to an electorate that is “fed up and frustrated” but he predicted that the American people don’t “want to lie in a state of pessimism”.
On Monday, the former Florida governor is in Charleston for a meet and greet with veterans who support his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. We won the majority. “We should go to war with Iraq”, he said then, at an event at The Ohio State University.
John Kasich has changed his stance on the Iraq War.
“Relationships matter”, said Kasich, who argued that Congress has stopped functioning because “nobody has relationships with anyone else”.
Kasich described bringing “some of the smartest thinkers in technology”, including Brin and Page, to Washington to advise the Pentagon for a three-year-long effort that collapsed after “the government started putting in lots of red tape, and most of these people scattered”.
The Ohio governor said that “strong faith” requires doing so.
“Why would I change the formula?”
Kasich said he opposes the pending nuclear treaty with Iran and supports the Trans- Pacific Partnership trade deal. He said he still believed he would be able to get some members of the Democratic party to work with him if he becomes president. “To me, conservatism is giving everybody a chance to be successful”.
“The battle is not just on the battlefield, which we can win”, Kasich said.
“Anyone who comes in illegally will have to be sent back”, Kasich said. “You know, I don’t like read a Bible to figure out what I think”.
Kasich used the forum to publicly set forth his ideas on defense and national security issues for the first time since he announced his presidential candidacy last month.
Kasich said it “probably makes more sense” to start in Syria first instead of Iraq because “that is where the headquarters of that caliphate are”.
Kasich expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, a decision that drew criticism from fellow Republicans. He would finish construction of a fence along the southern border and give undocumented workers here now a path to legal status, but not citizenship.
“And I think he’s going to take all of us with him, if we don’t watch it”.
“When I think about one horror, I also think about the possibilities that exist”, he told CNN’s State of the Union. “I don’t think it is humane”. He says it reaps savings from better public health and less prison time.
They also ask how Kasich can call for a balanced U.S. budget while taking federal money for Medicaid and adding to the debt.
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“People have kind of had it with politicians because they don’t think it’s working”, said Kasich. “I’m not saying other people don’t, but it touches me specially”.
