Get excited!
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio whose father was a mailman, is scheduled to appear this week in New Hampshire, and he will be available to meet with supporters, Team Kasich announced Tuesday in an email to news media.
“Governor Kasich returns to New Hampshire after the midterms. In addition to the events below, he will spend time Wednesday and Thursday meeting with old and new supporters,” it reads.
The failed 2016 GOP presidential candidate is slated to appear Thursday at a lunch event with the faculty and students of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. He is also scheduled to meet with supporters in Concord, N.H., and then will appear later for a First Amendment event at Loeb School in Manchester.
Kasich is obviously testing the waters for 2020, seeing if there’s enough support for him to make another run at the White House. Tuesday’s email announcement also comes on the heels of the governor’s many recent news appearances wherein he sounded an awful lot like he’s going to try again to run for president.
“I worry about my country. I worry about my country being a great leader in the world, not more conflict which can lead to — let’s not even go there,” he said on Sept. 2 during a CBS “Face the Nation” interview that was supposed to be about the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “I want my country where the people that live in this country, whoever they are, to feel as though they have a hope they’re respected and they can be successful. That to me is what it is really all about.”
Later, on Oct. 2, he told CNN’s Dana Bash that we’d have to wait and see what happens in the November midterm elections, “but then we have to move beyond that election and try to get this country unified.”
He added, “Think about it. The Congress is disrespected. The press is disrespected. The Justice Department is disrespected. And the court is beginning to lose respect. That is a bad place for our country to be. And we have got to stop it. And it starts, Dana, really with you and me,” saying that leaders should “bring people together.”
Then, on Nov. 5, he said in response to whether he’d run in 2020, “There is … an opening, I think, potentially, for an independent run, a third-party run, because if the Democrats go hard left, if they go hard left and the Republicans stay over on hard right, you have an ocean of people in the middle. And I don’t want to waste my time or bother people’s resources if I think I can be impactful to help the country, great.”
Also, just a quick heads up, Kasich’s super PAC, New Day for America, raised more than $300,000 in the third quarter, according to Federal Election Commission filings, which leaves me with just one question: Who’s ready for Kasich 2020?
Someone must be, right? Right?
