Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich criticized GOP rival Donald Trump’s place in the polls on Sunday, asking if the people surveyed who said they supported Trump were “for real.”
Trump has been a leading candidate among Republicans in the polls so far in the 2016 campaign. Kasich said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had gotten in a Twitter war over some of the recent comments Trump had made, including the option of registering Muslims in a database.
“The fact is I condemned it soon as it came out of his mouth, that’s not acceptable,” Kasich said.
NBC host Chuck Todd asked Kasich why he thought Trump was still leading in the polls despite these views.
“Well, Chuck, look, I don’t know how much he’s working and I don’t know who they’re surveying and I do believe in polls like you do, but at the same time, who are they surveying?” Kasich replied. “And are these people for real? I don’t think so.”
Watch Kasich’s comments:
You know you’re never going to win them over when you’ve resorted to dissing them.
Note to Kasich: Yes. Sadly, they’re all too real. The GOP courted the crazies, kept giving them loudspeakers, busing them in–all expenses paid for by the Kochs, Beck, Hannity and FOX Entertainment, etc.–you guys OWN them. Clean up after them.
Trump’s supporters are real, but they don’t live in reality.
They are the direct result of the Nixon / Reagan “Southern Strategy.”
Oh, you’d better BELIEVE they’re for real, Gov. These are the folks who would crawl on broken glass to vote against you (RINO’s) and Clinton, as well. You can’t do an “end run” around them unless the GOP ends up in a brokered convention. Keep hoping.
Dems can only hope for a Trump-Dem race. I have confidence that there are way fewer Brownshirt-KKK-low information voters than otherwise.