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Mitt Romney returned to the presidential campaign trail Monday to call on Ohio Republicans to back Gov. John Kasich in Tuesday’s primary. Aides to both Romney and Kasich insisted the appearances didn’t constitute an endorsement, but Mr. Romney urged the audience at an airplane museum here to vote for Mr. Kasich. “You look at this guy and unlike the other people running, he has a real track record,” Mr. Romney said. “It’s the kind of record that you want in Washington.” Mr. Romney added, while standing alongside Mr. Kasich on stage here: “This is the guy that Ohio needs to...

As the Republicans brace for an all-important Ohio primary, the candidates are already making their last-minute pitches with the hope of swaying the voters to their respective sides. -snip- While Trump is a hardliner when it comes to saying no to illegal immigrants, even proposing for the U.S.-Mexico bordering wall, Kasich has taken a whole lot of a softer stance on the matter. Speaking in front of a crowd in Ohio, Kasich rationalized his position on immigration by drawing a line between illegal immigrants who have criminal records and illegal immigrants in general. He said that while those who violate...

Governor John Kasich held an election eve rally in his hometown of Westerville on Monday. The event started at 6 p.m. at Westerville Central High School. Former GOP nominee Mitt Romney joined Kasich at two campaign stops in Ohio Monday, including the rally in Westerville. “I came here to make it real clear that all of America is watching what Ohio does,” said Romney, with Kasich and his family standing nearby.

If you live in Ohio and voting for GOP Republican candidate John Kasich, you may want to reconsider. Under Kasich’s watch, the state of Ohio has lost over 112,500 jobs and many more high-paying manufacturing jobs. In addition if elected president, Kasich will grant amnesty to the over 12 million illegal immigrants and their offsprings, support and continue Obamacare and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreements. Whomever you vote, just know this, Kasich has stated, “If I get to be president, I’m going to golf.” America does not need another President who is lazy and doesn’t care about our well-beings. We...

Hoping to end the campaign of John Kasich, Donald Trump rumbled into the Ohio Governor’s backyard Monday night to trash his rival for the Republican nominee as a job-killing free-trader. Trump was looking to gin up support in the hard-hit steel country near Youngstown, where the only thing that most mills make these days is rust. Trump’s brand of populism is finding a receptive audience in Ohio, just as it did in Michigan a week earlier, and he is promising to claw back outsourced jobs. “Ohio is going to make America great again,” Trump said in an airplane hangar, his...

It looked like an endorsement, and it sounded like an endorsement — but seriously, folks, it was just nice to have Mitt Romney in town. -snip- The only discord in North Canton came when a heckler held a sign referring to an unpaid bill of more than $11,000 related to security and other costs from Romney’s visits in 2012. The Romney campaign has disputed that the money is owed, but North Canton Mayor David Held said the campaign essentially stiffed a struggling city. “I think it illustrates the disconnect between mainstream America and Washington, D.C.,” Held said in an interview...

n your wildest imagination a year ago, you never would have pictured the Republican presidential race this way on the eve of the Ohio primary. John Kasich, the state's popular two-term governor, takes the stage at a high school about a mile from his home. At this moment, he is the GOP establishment's last best hope. There's Mitt Romney by his side. The same Mitt Romney who, when he was the Republican nominee in 2012, received little help or enthusiasm from Kasich. Except this is really happening. And yet it's not the most confident pose for Kasich. He is fighting...

Mitt Romney, in his latest attempt to help stop Donald J. Trump, joined Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on the campaign trail on Monday as Mr. Kasich tries to pull out a victory in his home state. At an air museum between Akron and Canton, where Mr. Kasich’s campaign bus pulled in next to a World War II-era bomber, Mr. Romney highlighted Mr. Kasich’s experience in Congress and as Ohio’s governor. “Unlike the other people running, he has a real track record,” Mr. Romney said in introducing Mr. Kasich at the town hall style event. “He has the kind of...

In a series of campaign stops today , Gov. John Kasich talked about tone, policy and the differences between him and Donald Trump, his chief rival for Ohio voters for the GOP presidential nomination. For Ohio Public Radio, WKSU’s M.L. Schultze has more from one of those stops. The first question raised at a town hall at the military air museum near the Akron-Canton Airport was about immigration. Gov. Kasich said he supports completing the border fence and establishing a path to legalization for those here illegally – though not citizenship. He flatly rejected the idea of the mass deportations...

In a room full of Republican donors last week, Gov. John Kasich said something you don’t normally hear at a GOP fundraiser. “This isn’t popular to always say, but I believe there is a problem with climates, climate change in the atmosphere,” Kasich told a Ross County Republican function on Thursday. “I believe it. I don’t know how much there is, but I also know the good Lord wants us to be good stewards of his creation. And so, at the end of the day, if we can find these breakthroughs to help us have a cleaner environment, I’m all...

A warmly worded thank you note from the days when there was a Clinton in the White House is raising questions about Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s stand on gun control. In 1994, when former President Bill Clinton was working to get an assault weapons ban through Congress, Kasich was one of only 38 Republicans who voted in support of H.R. 4296, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. For that action, he received a letter, only recently unearthed, from Clinton.

Over the past month, millions of YouTube viewers have watched what happens when a U.S. manufacturer announces a move to Mexico. Click on the unsteady cell phone video, shot at a factory that makes air conditioning, heating and related equipment in Indianapolis, and you will see workers listening to a man in a suit. He's telling them that their paychecks are headed to Mexico. -snip- On Monday, Trump tweeted about his opponent Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the North American Free Trade Agreement: "Gov Kasich voted for NAFTA, which devastated Ohio and is now pushing TPP hard- bad for American...

Stephen Miller, the senior policy advisor for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, told Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday that Ohio Governor John Kasich’s support for amnesty is more “radical” than even Hillary Clinton’s. “John Kasich has flown under the radar screen for months because he hasn’t been winning any states; he hasn’t been winning any delegates,” Miller said of the Republican candidate who is polling neck-in-neck with Trump in the crucial winner-take-all presidential primary in Ohio tomorrow. “Quietly he’s put together a string of statements on immigration so radical Jeb Bush’s face would turn a bright shade...

Gov. John Kasich defended Monday his support of an immigration overhaul that includes the legalization of nonviolent illegal immigrants, telling supporters on the eve of the Ohio primary that it is unrealistic to think that the federal government is going to boot illegal immigrants out of the country. The issue of illegal immigration has been a dividing line in the GOP presidential campaign, including here in Ohio, where businessman Donald Trump has vowed to finish the fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and make the Mexican government pay for it, and promised to make people living in the country illegally to...

Scott Bessent of Soros Fund Management, an investment firm founded by liberal mega-donor George Soros, has given more than $202,700 to help John Kasich’s presidential campaign, according to FEC records. Of that total, $200,000 was given to the pro-Kasich super PAC New Day for America. Bessent has also given the legal limit of $2,700 to Kasich’s campaign.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich leads GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump by 5 points in Mr. Kasich’s home state, according to a poll released on the eve of the March 15 primary there. Mr. Kasich had the support of 40 percent of likely GOP primary voters in Ohio in the Monmouth University poll released Monday, followed by Mr. Trump at 35 percent. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was at 15 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was at 5 percent. “The Ohio race is tight, but with Rubio floundering in Florida, Kasich could potentially bolster his standing as the establishment’s...

NORTH CANTON The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has declined to reimburse the city and Stark County about $14,500 that local officials say they incurred to provide security, firefighter coverage and other services for Romney’s Oct. 26 rally at Hoover High School. With the U.S. Secret Service saying it does not cover such costs, it appears that local taxpayers are on the hook for much of that amount. The campaign is also declining to pay the more than $600 in police and fire overtime costs North Canton said it incurred for Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s appearance...

Is a Romney endorsement for Kasich ahead of the critical Tuesday Ohio primary a kiss of death? Perhaps. Moments ago, the WSJ reported that Mitt Romney is planning to endorse John Kasich later today in Ohio, citing Kasich. -snip- Kasich may have just gotten cold feet, because according to the following note by Reuters, either the WSJ is wrong, or Kasich had a prompt change of heart about Mitt's endorsement.

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich's campaign on Monday denied a report that Mitt Romney, the party's presidential candidate in 2012, would endorse the Ohio governor on Monday. A Wall Street Journal reporter said Kasich answered in the affirmative to a question about Romney's endorsement. Kasich spokesman Chris Schrimpf said, "This is not true. Kasich was responding and acknowledging a different question." A Romney endorsement would have provided Kasich with a boost on the eve of Ohio's primary

John Kasich told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Tuesday that the idea of deporting all the illegal immigrants who are already in America is “just unbelievable.” Kasich argued that for the illegal immigrants already in America “let them stay.”