Kasich said. “Put what you’re for on the air, so they can make a good judgment in the last week of this campaign”.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich says Republicans will be “making a awful mistake” if they underestimate the challenge of beating Hillary Clinton in a general election.
Some voters have told him, he said Monday, ” ‘I’m a Democrat, and you’re the only Republican I’d be for.’ I say, ‘Well, my dad was a Democrat. That’s why the bar is so much higher for Bernie Sanders to perform well in New Hampshire, for example.
“Live Free or Die” is the official motto of New Hampshire, a state that prides itself on independence and choosing non-traditional candidates in the first-in-the-nation primary. For all the complaints about the state’s caucus system, Iowans’ demand that candidates show up in person, at small venues, is a solid test of a campaign’s strength.
Brigid C. Harrison, a political science and law professor at Montclair State University, said the ad branding Kasich as a “Wall Street banker” was reminiscent of the attack ads Mitt Romney faced as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee for his work at the alternative investment firm Bain Capital.
Both states are largely white, and their Democratic electorates are upper-income and progressive.
“Independents are like the icing on the cake”, Smith said.
That’s the big question now that all eyes are on New Hampshire.
The Florida senator’s solid showing increases pressure on other establishment Republicans to deliver victories here or be forced to rally around Rubio’s candidacy in an effort to thwart Cruz and Trump – who have earned the enmity of party stalwarts. Marco Rubio, whom he described as “probably the most centrist” of the GOP candidates. Discussing healthcare costs, Kasich said it’s easier to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls than reading a hospital bill. “We can’t keep financing debt”.
John Kasich gained only a couple of percentage points of support in the Iowa caucus Monday night, but his confidence in his New Hampshire chances held strong.
What about Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey?
Bush delivered a speech in Hanover, N.H., in which he said the next president “needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interest of this country – to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world”.
After spending little time or money in Iowa, Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he is pinning his presidential hopes on New Hampshire and will reassess his campaign in the days after the primary next week.
Kasich, who has recently been rising in the polls while scoring key endorsements from the Boston Globe and New York Times, has dedicated as much time to New Hampshire as Christie. “That’s just more negative campaigning”.
Smith, a co-author of the study, said young voters – 129,000 New Hampshire residents celebrated their 18th birthdays between 2008 and 2015 – could change the political calculus, particularly on the Democratic side.
Bush is banking on voters in New Hampshire to lift his struggling campaign. Those groups are typically the least likely to vote.
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“I get snuffed out, I’m going home, end of story”, he conceded while in Keene, NH.
