Ohio Gov. John Kasich lost his temper at a campaign stop on Tuesday afternoon. The governor appeared at a “send-off” rally to announce his Ohio leadership team, but ended up attacking several of the other Republican presidential candidates who have routinely outperformed the governor in polling across the country.
“Do you know how crazy this election is? Let me tell you something,” Kasich fumed. “I’ve about had it with these people.”
Kasich took aim at much of the Republican field and lamented the state of the GOP in 2015. The governor appeared to focus on Donald Trump for his views on immigration.
“We got one guy that says we ought to take 10 or 11 million people and pick them up, where the — I don’t know where, we’re gonna go in their homes, their apartments,” Kasich said. “We’re gonna pick them up and take them to the border and scream at them to get out of our country. That’s just crazy. That is just crazy.”
But Kasich did not stop there and also went after Ben Carson for his 10 percent flat tax proposal. Kasich has previously flirted with flat tax proposals.
“We’ve got one person saying we ought to have a 10 percent flat tax that’ll drive up the deficit in this country by trillions of dollars that my daughters will spend the rest of their lives having to pay off,” he said. “You know what I say to them is why don’t we have no taxes, just get rid of them and then a chicken in every pot on top of it.”
Kasich’s rant continued as he reportedly called out former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for taking pride in the nickname “Veto Corleone,” for his usage of the line item veto as governor.
The Ohio governor told the crowd he was done being polite and listening to the “nonsense,” before lamenting the state of the Republican Party.
“What has happened to our party?” he said. “What has happened to the conservative movement?”
Kasich ranks eight in the Washington Examiner‘s most recent power rankings, behind Trump, Carson and Bush.
