John Kasich in South-by-Southwest political conference
On Principles & Values:
OpEd: moderate Republican who has been critical or Trump
Could President Donald Trump be in for a Republican primary challenge? Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in Austin for South by Southwest (SXSW), addressed the rumor in an interview at the festival. "I don't know what I'm going to do," said Kasich. "At
some point there's an internal clock for all of us and there are deadlines, but they're not here yet. I'll tell you this though, I'm not in a Hail Mary. I run when I think I can win. So we assess things just about every week, sometimes every day, and
we'll see. I'm not closing anything down, I just don't know."The Republican former governor is known as a moderate and has been critical of President Trump in the past. It has been speculated that he might make a run for the White House. "I don't
get into things where I don't thing I can win, and right now, right now, today, inside the Republican Party, I can't beat him in a primary," Kasich told SXSW. "But we'll see. That's today."
Kasich ended his eight-year governorship in January.
Source: CNN.com on 2019 SXSW South-by-Southwest conference
Mar 10, 2019
On Principles & Values:
OpEd: Realism & anti-liberalism define #NeverTrump ideology
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich [at SXSW in Texas, offered his own] flavor of Heartland hotdish. Kasich, who ran against Trump in 2016 and is possibly thinking of doing so again, knows he comes off as self-righteous and tried to mitigate it in his convo
with David Maraniss, but was still kinda annoying in his "blunt" "tell it like it is" realism and anti-liberalism (the core #NeverTrump ideology) mixed with teeth-grinding mawkishness. He does believe in climate change, though.
Source: Mike Clark-Madison, Texas Tribune on 2019 SXSW conference
Mar 10, 2019
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