CNN host Jake Tapper grilled Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich and asked him if he thought his attack web video against GOP rival Donald Trump seemed “desperate.”
Tapper asked Kasich about his recent video against Trump and that the video could be compared to a poem about the Nazis.
“The Nazis killed 12 million people,” Tapper said. “It seems a little extreme and perhaps even a lot desperate to compare Donald Trump to the Nazis.”
Kasich responded and said that wasn’t “what is being done here.”
“When you attack Hispanics, when you characterize all Muslims in a very negative way, when you insult women, we don’t think that that’s good. We think, at this point in time, more than any other time, we need to have — we need to have America united,” Kasich said. “And we need to have an American president who is going to unite us and not divide us.”
“And it’s no more than that,” Kasich said. “And any read into it more than that is certainly not what was intended or what was meant.”
