Every Republican currently up for election in Ohio is running with Trump. Kasich is delusional to believe that he has the respect of even his home state. His post-campaign behavior and refusal to be a part of the convention being held in his home state was childish. That’s what he is now, a petulant child who didn’t get his way. He has made himself irrelevant. He should go away and get a cushy teaching job someplace where adoring 18 and 19 year-olds can feed his needy ego. Better yet, he should just go away, retire, and live the rest of his life quietly and out of the public eye.
He was positioning himself to be the GOP front-runner in 2020 against Hillary Clinton.
He was scheduled to give a speech to the American Enterprise Institute two days after the election. This would have been the unofficial launch of his "Kasich 2020" campaign. He was planning to build his campaign on a rejection of Trump's stands on trade and immigration.
He canceled the speech within hours of Trump's victory.
Kasich knows damn well that he's playing a losing hand. He's right that some of Trump's views have no place in the Republican Party. THAT'S WHY TRUMP WON THE ELECTION. Any other Republican nominee would have lost in a landslide.