Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich received some backlash after signing a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in OH and saying that he only got elected after “women left their kitchens” to campaign for him.
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“How did I get elected?” the Ohio governor said about winning his seat in the Ohio State Senate when he was 26 years old.
“It’s 2016. A woman’s place is…wherever she wants it to be”, wrote Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) on Monday, in a quotation retweet that refers to Kasich’s comments about his first campaign.
The poll also shows 5 percent of Republicans remain undecided and 38 percent of those who name a candidate say they might change their mind before the OH primary, which is three weeks away.
In the New Hampshire primary, where Kasich placed second with about 45,000 votes, he got about 1,800 more votes from men than he did from women, according to exit polling figures.
Expanding on the “women left their kitchens” remark, the Mr Kasich added: “All the way back when….things were different”.
His campaign staff insisted that, far from repeating outdated sexist stereotypes, Mr Kasich been describing social conditions at the time and had immediately qualified the comment with an explanation that was edited out of the version posted on YouTube.
“I’m hopeful, I trust you.’ How can anybody even pay to get those kind of comments?”
“You’re Georgians”, he said from House rostrum.
Kasich was first elected to public office after running for the Ohio Senate in 1978.
Minutes later, a woman who identified herself as a nursing student at the university stood up and asked Kasich a question about his decision to sign a billin Ohio Sunday that diverts funding from Planned Parenthood in the state.
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“When I heard John Kasich’s latest offensive views on women and our rights, I nearly dropped the casserole I was taking out of the oven!” said NARAL president Ilyse Hogue. He said that on paper, Kasich “seems like the very best”. That’s real grassroots campaigning and he’s proud of the authentic support.
