Former presidential hopeful and Ohio governor John Kasich has joined other Republican leaders in encouraging delegates to consider their conscience before voting to formally give Donald Trump the GOP nomination.
The Washington Post reports:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who has declined to endorse Donald Trump for president, said Tuesday that the delegates to the party’s national convention should search their own consciences and decide whether to support the presumptive nominee when they meet in Cleveland in two weeks. Kasich, like other rivals of Trump, pledged to support the party’s nominee while he was a candidate for the Republican nomination. But he has not lived up to that commitment and shows no sign of doing so. Asked whether delegates to the convention, including those bound to Trump or others by the results of primaries and caucuses, should honor those rules if Kasich is not living up to his pledge, he said it is up to them to decide. “They have to weigh their responsibilities against their consciences and then make a decision about what they want to do,” he said.
Kasich is not expected to participate in the GOP convention later this month, which takes place in his home state of Ohio. Quoted in the Post, he said “I will not and do not want to be a disruptive force…Donald Trump won. It’s his party and his convention.”
