A group supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Republican presidential campaign has released a new television ad that could be mistaken for a Pure Michigan commercial.
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John Kasich, campaigning in Virginia Monday in advance of this state’s March 1 primary, defended his decision to sign a bill to defund Planned Parenthood in oh, insisting “we will not walk away from” women’s health if he is elected president.
But the lone governor still running for president has also avoided spelling out his positions on reproductive rights, avoiding it in stump speeches and giving short answers when directly asked about it. In a recent CNN interview, Kasich called abortion “an important issue” but quickly pivoted to other “really critical” issues.
Ohio Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich visited the University of Virginia on Monday as part of a series of campaign stops in the state.
“For the first time in this campaign I think I’m finally being heard”, Kasich said. The poll was conducted before four candidates – Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina and Jim Gilmore – dropped out of the race, but Kasich was polling ahead of all of them.
“But I found hope”, Smith told Kasich during a February 18 town hall meeting in Clemson, S.C. “And now I found it in my presidential candidate whom I support, and I’d really appreciate one of those hugs you’ve been talking about”.
BLITZER: That remark earned Kasich a rebuke from one of his current female supporters.
He said because he doesn’t use a teleprompter or notes, he sometimes doesn’t say things as artfully as he should.
Kasich, 63, added his first campaign took place in an era in which “things were different”.
“I’m kind of a real guy and I think people want authenticity and I’m going to continue to be authentic and every once in a while, have to go back and make sure people know what I really mean when I say something”, Kasich said.
Kasich also addressed controversy that arose earlier in the day over a comment he made that women had “left their kitchens” to support him early in his political career. “Now you call homes and everyone is working”.
“I’ll come to support you, but I won’t be coming out of the kitchen”, she said.
“They’ve literally been run out of his friends” kitchens and many of his early campaign teams were made up of stay-at-home moms who believed deeply in the changes he wanted to bring to them and their families’.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper criticized Kasich and Republicans for the measure.
“We consider women’s health to be critical”, he said, “but you don’t have to be captive towards delivering it through an organization that frankly is largely discredited”.
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“For most of the time, nobody heard me”.
