COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) is the latest entry into the 2016 Republican presidential race.
The outspoken swing-state governor declared his candidacy Tuesday at Ohio State University. He told a crowd of 2,000: “The sun is going to rise to the zenith in America again.”
He’s the 16th notable Republican to join the bustling contest for the nomination.
Kasich says that despite all the competitors, he’s the only one with experience in three broad areas of political leadership — the federal budget, national security and state government.
He served previously in the House, where he became an architect of a balanced budget deal in 1997. He’s 63.
Kasich embraces conservative ideals but bucks his party on occasion and disdains the Republican sport of bashing Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Whoop-de-doo. One more clown for the Presidential republi-con clown bus. Wake me on election day.
It was so fucking boring
The house floating above the house on the shining hill…
The former Washington Insider wants to go inside again. Ohio has been cramping his DeLay style? ?
With a billionaire’s sugar behind him, Kasich would be the GOP’s most formidable candidate in the general election. Fortunately for the Dems, he doesn’t have such a sugar daddy to sustain him through the primarys.