Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he would not become “a marshmallow” when attack ads begin coming his way after his second place finish in New Hampshire.
As the 2016 race shifts to South Carolina, Kasich had an unusual way of describing how he will rebut the coming deluge of negative advertising.
“I’m not going to sit there and be a marshmallow or some kind of a pincushion [where] people just pound me,” Kasich told CNN. “I mean, where I come from, the blue collar town that I come from, if you came in and beat our football team we just broke all the windows on your bus. That’s just a joke by the way. But I mean, the fact is, I’m not going to just sit there and let somebody pound on me.”
The Ohio governor also argued that a hopeful and optimistic message would triumph over rhetoric that antagonizes political opponents. Kasich ranks third in the newest GOP presidential power rankings.
