Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday compared Donald Trump’s claim that the November election is rigged in favor of Democrats to saying that the United States faked the moon landing in 1969.
“No, look, I’ve run statewide in Ohio. My first election was extremely close,” Kasich said on CBS. “Look, to say that elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that’s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly, that’s how silly it is. No, I just, I don’t think that’s good for our country, for our democracy, and I don’t believe we have any massive fraud. One of my great friends here is the head of the board of elections, we don’t have that. It’s just a silly argument.”
“The problem is it does create doubt in people’s minds, and I worry about 25 percent of Americans who can say when an election was over it was stolen,” Kasich said. “That is a big, fat joke.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that the election is being rigged and stolen by the Clinton campaign and the media after women came forward following the second presidential debate claiming that Trump sexually assaulted them.
Kasich, who finished fourth in the GOP nominating race, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and has refused to endorse him. He cemented his decision not to endorse Trump in the aftermath of the leaked video two weeks ago that showed Trump making lewd remarks about women on a hot microphone 11 years ago.
