Republican delegates are not going to be likely to support either Donald Trump or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz when they get to the party’s national convention in July, Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on Sunday.
“More and more, the political establishment is beginning to look at two things,” Kasich told “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson. “One, who can win in the fall, and I’m the only one who consistently beats Hillary Clinton in the fall.
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“There’s great concern in the Republican Party that we’re not just talking about the presidential race, that frankly if we get blown out in the fall, which I think we would with both Cruz and Trump, but we could lose the United States Senate, we could lose seats all the way from the state house to the courthouse. And I think this is going to be a big consideration at the convention,” Kasich said.
“Here’s what’s going to happen,” he added. “I think you’re going to see significant changes in the delegate voting after the first ballot. We have like the best people who can know how to manage a convention.”
“Here’s what’s interesting,” Kasich said, suggesting that he was prepared to go down in history. “I am the second choice of both the Cruz people and also the Trump people. As you know, we’ve had 10 contested conventions, and only three times has the front-runner won. I don’t want to go back in history too far, but I think old Honest Abe went into the convention either third or fourth and came out the winner. So we’ll see.”
