It is understandable that Kasich is unhappy with the nation’s decision to vote for Trump over him, but the alternative of Clinton should concern him even more.
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The governor has repeatedly refused to endorse Trump, and skipped the Republican National Convention in his home state partially due to his disagreements with the Republican presidential nominee. While Kasich denied getting such a call himself, he told Tapper that one of his aides confirmed the story to him. Trump would go on to change his mind by the end of the week following a wave of backlash from the Republican Party. “But the fact is that I think that this race is a long, long ways from over”, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told John Catsimatidis in an interview that aired Sunday on “The Cats Roundtable”.
“If I wasn’t prepared to endorse a nominee, I just thought it was inappropriate to go into that convention hall”, Kasich said. It seems hard to believe that Goldwater country would vote for Hillary Clinton (I know, I know, she was a Goldwater fan growing up) but between the large Latino and Mormon minorities there, she’s got a shot. I wish that I could be fully enthusiastic. When Trump suggested he might rethink North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commitments, Kasich took to Twitter to stand up for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, using the hashtag #StandTogether.
There was a report in “The New York Times” that Donald Trump Jr. called you and tried to suss out your feelings, your interest in being the vice president and said you would be able to run domestic and foreign policy.
“I’ve had a lot of people pound on me about you need to do this, you need to do this, this is about the party”, Kasich said. “I have too many opinions, Jake”.
John Kasich on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Donald Trump’s chances of winning the key battleground state. And I have to be true to myself.
“You know isn’t that awesome?”
Tapper could have questioned Ohio’s CEO-style leader on why so many people are hurting in a state he and Republicans have controlled from top to bottom for almost six years.
Trump’s many feuds with major GOP figures, including Ryan and Arizona Senator John McCain, show he has no hesitation in confronting them, a quality many of his fellow Republicans say is self-destructive.
KASICH: Yes. But I never got a call. “I think the comments are insulting”, said Adolfo Olivas, a former Republican mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, whose son Nicholas was killed on patrol in Afghanistan in 2012.
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“One by one these families come in to see me”.
