“Yes, I know John Kasich”, Hopkins wrote in closing, “He is my friend and I am proud to support him”.
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“I think I’m going to do fantastic in Ohio”, Trump recently told Fox News. “He just sent me a nice email after the last debate”. Billy Hudson, R-Hattiesburg, who with her husband endorsed Kasich during a town hall meeting in Gulfport, Miss., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson are all far behind. But that’s not a good sign for Kasich as he’s very popular in OH and can’t show dominance in his own state.
Polls also show a close race between Trump and Kasich in Ohio. Bernie Sanders by 19 points, 54-to-35 percent. Cruz has 16, Rubio has 15 and Kasich has five.
Clinton polled especially well among Chicago and suburban Chicago residents, with 55 and 53 percent of respondents, respectively, saying they will vote for her. Clinton also leads among female and older voters. Trump beats Clinton by just two percent, 39 percent to 37 percent. In a brief interview Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, declined to characterize how Trump fared.
Kasich said he is uncomfortable with the restrictions advocated by some conservatives that would allow businesses like bakeries, florists and country clubs to deny service to same-sex couples who are getting married.
John Kasich has been driving home one message all week: that in spite of calls for the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party to unite behind Florida Sen.
Kasich’s campaign points to his decisive re-election victory and strong approval ratings as proof that his leadership style, if brash, has shown results most Ohioans like, even if critics carp.
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“I don’t know all the stuff he wrote but it’s great to have an attorney general who served under George Bush in tough times”, Kasich said. “I’m following the objective that I think has been laid out for me”. If it’s not this crusade, then it will be another one. It finds that in the key state of Ohio, Hillary Clinton trails, or is in a virtual tie with, the leading Republican presidential contenders.
