Ohio Gov. John Kasich said he believes the Republican Party is headed for a brokered convention.
Kasich explained his hope to march through the convention en route to the White House while onstage with Sean Hannity at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
“It has to be done fairly. And I was there as a really young man in ’76 when Gov. Reagan tried to beat Gerry Ford; in the end, everybody got together. It worked out,” Kasich said. “You have to do it right and you can’t have a bunch of people in smoke-filled rooms who are the establishment — by the way, you and I have never been the establishment, never. And my only fear of the convention is that these kind of connected interests would dominate.”
The governor said he would win his home state of Ohio when it votes later this month and then carry that momentum to the GOP convention in hopes of wrangling enough delegates to become his party’s nominee.
“I’m the last governor standing, there’s only four of us, and we’re the little engine that can,” Kasich told the crowd. “So believe in us.”
