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To the extent it’s still standing after yesterday, the Stop Trump movement is comforting itself with the world’s biggest lie: that John Kasich is the embodiment of the Republican Party, while Donald Trump is the bastard stepchild. It’s exactly the opposite. It is no longer a question of what the party wants. The voters — remember them? — keep showering Trump and Cruz with Ceausescu-like percentages. The combined vote for Trump and Cruz is a ringing chorus of what this party wants: a wall, deportation, less immigration and no job-killing trade deals. In other words, what the party wants is...

With Ohio Gov. John Kasich having won his state’s GOP presidential primary, the national Republican Party is setting up the narrative that its future now depends on Kasich. In a press release, Kasich campaign chief strategist John Weaver said with Kasich winning Ohio – the only state he has won thus far – the primary race is a “whole new ballgame.”

Missouri is a winner take all State that has 52 Delegates up for grab, and it's likely to go to Trump. If Trump wins it, then he will have won 213 Delegates yesterday alone. Don't forget that Trump won 9 Delegates from the Northern Mariana islands in case my Delegate count is off by 9. At this point I don't understand why Kasich is still even in the running? Winning your home State is nothing to brag about. That should be an automatic for any Presidential Candidate. For the good of the party Kasich should step down. The Candidates need...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he has to win and expects to do well in his home state of Ohio among the Republican primaries today, adding he'll also do well in other states. "You'll see tonight. We're going to win Ohio," Kasich said in an interview on “Good Morning America.” “We have to win.” He added: "We're going to do better in Illinois that anybody thinks."

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...

Why wonÂ’t Ohioans vote for their own governor for president? That is a questions IÂ’ve been asked a lot lately. The short answer is he is no conservative. When you have a liberal media personality saying Kasich would make a great running mate for Hillary Clinton, well, that kind of says it all. I was just one of the thousands of Ohioans across the state who volunteered countless hours to help get John Kasich elected governor. His passionate speeches about repealing the death tax, phasing out personal income tax, protecting gun rights, and standing against Obamacare had a lot of...

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...

Kasich Pledges to Submit Comprehensive Immigration Reform Plan to Congress in First 100 Days VIDEO AT LINK

Illegal immigrants are “a critical part of our society” and should be provided a route to amnesty, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich tells a coalition of Hispanic company executives. “For those that are here that have been law abiding, God bless them,” he told the business group, which is a major advocate for expanded immigration. “Then I think the [illegals] should have a path to legalization… I think that can pass,” Kasich said, using one of the euphemisms for granting legal residency to illegal immigrants. The Ohio governor also claimed the illegal immigrants are skilled. The illegals “are a critical...

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s call to ban most Muslims from the United States would weaken the nation and “doesn’t represent what we are.” “This is not what leads to a strong America,” Mr. Kasich said during an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “We have never been strong by focusing on things designed to divided us.” -snip- Mr. Kasich also said that he is encouraged by how moderate Muslims have come out against the Islamic State terror group, or ISIS. “They have condemned aggressively the attacks all over the word,”...

GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday his plan for immigration reform, which includes controlling the border, a guest worker program and amnesty. “We need to clean up the visas, but at the end of the day, people are here now. Let them stay,” he said.

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will campaign with Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Ohio Monday, Kasich's campaign announced Sunday night.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich stuck by his desire for a path to legalization for illegal immigrants in the United States during a Q&A with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. He described the idea of deporting millions of illegal immigrants from the U.S. as unacceptable. "The idea that we're going to pick these people up and ship them out is unbelievable," Kasich said. "It's just not acceptable in America." Kasich, eighth in the Washington Examiner's power rankings, did not explicitly rule out a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants during his remarks to the Hispanic group, but said...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich wants to allow law-abiding undocumented immigrants to achieve legal status, saying many immigrants "contribute a lot to the United States." "The 12 million who are here, we ought to find out who they are. If they've been law-abiding over a period of time, they ought to be legalized and they ought to be able to stay here," the Republican presidential candidate told CNN's "State of the Union" program Sunday.

Ohio Governor John Kasich, the latest Republican to say he’s interested in running for his party’s nomination for president, attracted a crowd of about 200 people in Des Moines today. During a forum at the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Kasich distinguished himself from the rest of the field. He criticized the pro-ethanol renewable fuel standard, and called for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Kasich says the Republican Party is his vehicle, not his master. “They can't tell me what to do,” Kasich says. “On the issue of immigration we need to get things moving on this and get...

In a post debate interview with Sean Hannity, Ohio governor John Kasich called a past immigration vote of his "amnesty." Watch here: -snip- Look, I was there when Reagan did the amnesty thing. I was there -- amnesty -- I was there in '86. I voted for the bill.

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich reaffirmed his call for a path to legal status for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., as well as a guest worker program to meet the needs of the labor market. -snip- He said the U.S. should identify people in the country illegally, then implement a path to legal status that would enable many of those individuals to remain in the country. “They’re people who contribute a lot to the U.S.,” he said. But he said, “If you have violated the law we’re going to ship you out.” He noted that children...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Wednesday he would complete a border fence and crack down on illegal immigration if elected president, but he refused to slam the door on a possible pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. "I would prefer for them to be legalized once we find out who they are because they can -- I think they contribute a lot to America," Kasich told CNN's Dana Bash on "The Lead." "They're hard workers, they're God-fearing, they're family-oriented.

Below are just some of Kasich’s most bizarre and radical statements on immigration, which have flown under the radar.1) “God Bless” Illegal Immigrants Illegal immigrants are a “critical part of our society,” John Kasich told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce last October. “For those that are here that have been law abiding, God bless them,” Kasich said—arguing that illegals “should have a path to legalization.”2) “I couldn’t imagine” enforcing our current immigration laws: “That is not… the kind of values that we believe in.” On the GOP debate stage in February, Kasich told millions of American voters that enforcing the...

Ohio Governor John Kasich will be attending CPAC next month, after initially turning down the high profile opportunity to speak with conservative activists... All of the other Republican candidates had confirmed an appearance at CPAC except for Sen. Marco Rubio... In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Schlapp indicated that Rubio was making a "rookie mistake" by skipping the event...