Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) doesn’t want voters in Michigan to think former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney prefers another candidate—despite the fact that Romney, a Michigan native, recorded robocalls for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), too.
“Gov. Romney’s kinda recording robocalls for everyone. And I didn’t want people to think he favors one person over me because he doesn’t,” Kasich told reporters Tuesday after a rally in Lansing, Michigan. “So you know, it’s his words, I don’t write his scripts.”
It was widely reported that Romney recorded robocalls for Rubio’s campaign in four states, but the fact that Romney also recorded a robocall for Kasich in Michigan went largely unnoticed until Tuesday afternoon. (Kasich’s campaign didn’t respond to an inquiry from the New York Times on Monday.)
The scripts Romney reads in the robocalls for the two candidates are nearly identical. Kasich’s robocall begins, “Hello, this is Mitt Romney calling and I’m calling on behalf of Kasich for America.”
Because Romney is recording robocalls for multiple candidates, Kasich said the show of support didn’t come under ideal circumstances.
“We want to make sure people don’t think that Romney is for someone else and not for me, particularly in the state of Michigan,” he told reporters. “So is this the scenario I would like to have had it work out like this? Not really, but it is what it is.”
Listen to Romney robocall for Kasich below, via ABC News:
Romney: I favor Kasich over others in MI. In FL, I favor Rubio over others. This is how conservatism works and is not confusing to those who are not 47%ers.
Brown-nosing, are we, Guv? And a Romney ass, at that! (((shivers)))
John Kasich is the only person in America whose tax returns are more exciting than he is.
And sucking up to Mitt Romney? Damn, is that desperation or what?
Is that Kasich’s campaign slogan, “America Never Gives Up”? Really - that’s the best his campaign could come up with?
This whole thing is a fiasco. Are these people truly the best and brightest that the GOP has?
Why not just tape one anti-Trump message and be done with it? Not that it’ll do any good.